The Treatises of Cyprian

1. That we must not use detraction.

In Solomon, in the Proverbs: “Love not to detract, lest thou be taken away.”(Prov. xx. 13)⁴⁶⁰⁶ Also in the forty-ninth Psalm: “Thou sattest, and spakest against thy brother; and against the son of thy mother thou placedst a stumbling-block.”(Ps. l. 20) Also in the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians:⁴⁶⁰⁸ “To speak ill of no man, nor to be litigious.”(Tit. iii. 2)