The Treatises of Cyprian

1. That no one is without filth and without sin.

In Job: “For who is pure from filth? Not one; even if his life be of one day on the earth.”(Job xiv. 4, 5) Also in the fiftieth Psalm: “Behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sins hath my mother conceived me.”(Ps. li. 5) Also in the Epistle of John: “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”(1 John i. 8)