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Works Cyprian of Carthage (200-258) Ad Fortunatum (de exhortatione martyrii) Exhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus
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Therefore, in exhorting and preparing our brethren, and in arming them with firmness of virtue and faith for the heralding forth of the confession of the Lord, and for the battle of persecution and suffering, we must declare, in the first place, that the idols which man makes for himself are not gods. For things which are made are not greater than their maker and fashioner; nor can these things protect and preserve anybody, which themselves perish out of their temples, unless they are preserved by man. But neither are those elements to be worshipped 1 which serve man according to the disposition and ordinance of God.


  1. The Oxford edition here adds, "in the place of gods." ↩

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Exhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus

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Faculty of Theology, Patristics and History of the Early Church
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