Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus
(c. AD 200- 258)
Early Church Father “Cyprian”
Books of Testimonies Against The Jews
(On the Fulfillment of Matthew 23:36)
6. That the Jews should lose Jerusalem, and should leave the land which they had received.
In Isaiah: “Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers shall devour it in your sight; and the daughter of Zion shall be left deserted, and overthrown by foreign peoples, as a cottage in a vineyard, and as a keeper’s lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a city which is besieged. And unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we should have been as Sodoma, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.”[5] Also in the Gospel the Lord says: “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not! Behold, your house shall be left unto you desolate.”[6] (THREE BOOKS OF TESTIMONIES AGAINST THE JEWS., 6)
(On the Fulfillment of Prophecy)
“the Holy Spirit foretells and forewarns us by the apostle, saying, “In the last days,” says he, “perilous times shall come, and men shall be lovers of their own selves, proud, boasters, covetous, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, hating the good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a sort of form of religion, but denying the power thereof. Of this sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, which are led away with divers lusts; ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of the truth. And as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth; but they shall proceed no further, for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, even as theirs also was.” Whatever things were predicted are fulfilled” (Treatises of Cyprian Treatise I, sec. 16.).
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Date: 17 Nov 2006
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As long as the Scriptures are interpreted solely on a time line, the interpretatiion will be incorrect. There is no time or distance in the realm of Spirit.
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