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On the Unity of the Church

SaintsSt. Cyprian of CarthageOn the Unity of the Church
On the Unity of the ChurchSt. Cyprian of Carthage

On the Unity of the Church

Read at the Council of Carthage, 251

By St. Cyprian of Carthage

43 min · Early Church · Latin West

The treatise the whole later argument about what the Church is has to go through. Many rays and one light, many branches and one root, many streams and one source, and the coat of Christ that was not divided.

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Source: St. Cyprian of Carthage, On the Unity of the Church (Treatise I), written 251. Translated by Robert Ernest Wallis. Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 5 (ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe, 1886). Public domain. Source text via Wikisource. Schaff's editorial footnotes are omitted; the text is Cyprian's, unabridged.