-- 12. In short, we may see how great an evil in itself is envy, which cannot be other than malicious. Let us not look for other testimony. Cyprian himself is sufficient for us, through whose mouth the Lord poured forth so many thunders in most perfect

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Footnotes:

[1372] Cypr. de Zel. et Liv. c. 1.

[1373] Ib. c. 4.

[1374] Wisd. ii. 24, 25.

[1375] Conc. Carth. sub in.

[1376] 1 Corinthians 11:16.

[1377] This treatise is still extant. See Trans. in Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. V. 484-490.

[1378] Cypr. Ep. 73. 26.