The Treatises of Cyprian

Second Book.

1. That Christ is the First-born, and that He is the Wisdom of God, by whom all things were made.

1. That Christ is the Wisdom of God; and about the sacrament of His incarnation, and passion, and cup, and altar, and the apostles who were sent and preached.

1. That Christ also is Himself the Word of God.

1. That the same Christ is God’s hand and arm.

1. That the same is Angel and God.

1. That Christ is God.

1. That Christ our God should come as the Illuminator and Saviour of the human race.

1. That although from the beginning He had been Son of God, He had yet to be begotten again according to the flesh.

1. That this should be the sign of His nativity, that He should be born of a virgin—man and God—Son of man and of God.

1. That Christ is man and God, compounded of either nature, that He might be a mediator between us and the Father.

1. That He was to be born of the seed of David after the flesh.

1. That He should be born in Bethlehem.

1. That He should come in lowly condition on His first advent.

1. That He was the righteous One whom the Jews should put to death.

1. That He was called a Sheep and a Lamb who would have to be slain, and concerning the sacrament of the passion.

1. That He is also called a Stone.

1. That subsequently that stone should become a mountain, and should fill the whole earth.

1. That in the last times the same mountain should be manifested, upon which the Gentiles should come, and on which the righteous should go up.

1. That He is the Bridegroom, having the Church as His bride, from whom children should be spiritually born.

1. That the Jews should fasten Him to the Cross.

1. That in the passion and the sign of the cross is all virtue and power.

1. That in this sign of the cross is salvation for all who are marked on their foreheads.

1. That at mid-day, during His passion, there should be darkness.

1. That He should not be overcome of death, nor should remain in hell.

1. That He should rise again from hell on the third day.

1. That when He had risen, He should receive from His Father all power, and His power should be eternal.

1. That it is impossible to attain to God the Father, except through the Son Jesus Christ.

1. That He is to come as a Judge.

1. That He is to reign as a King for ever.

1. That He is both Judge and King.