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The Treatises

Cyprian of Carthage · 256 · Before the division · public-domain-translation

2 claims in this dataset rest on this source.

The source

Sentences remembered from it

  • Cyprian ANF V, On the Unity of the Church, Treatise I, 5
  • Cyprian ANF V, On the Unity of the Church, Treatise I, 6

Twelve short works from eight years as bishop of Carthage, of which the first — On the Unity of the Church — is the most quoted statement in Latin Christianity of what a church is and why it cannot be two. Written against the Novatianist schism, and the source of the line about the Father and the mother.