The Treatises of Cyprian

1. That one ought to make confession while he is in the flesh.

In the fifth Psalm: “But in the grave who will confess unto Thee?”(Ps. vi. 5)(1 Cor. xv. 54, 55)⁴⁶²³ Also in the twenty-ninth Psalm: “Shall the dust make confession to Thee?”(Ps. xxx. 9) Also elsewhere that confession is to be made: “I would rather have the repentance of the sinner than his death.”(Ezek. xxxiii. 11) Also in Jeremiah: “Thus saith the Lord, Shall not he that falleth arise? or shall not he that is turned away be converted?”(Jer. viii. 4)