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Introductory Essay on the Manichæan Heresy, By Albert H. Newman, D.D., LL.D · Book IV. In Which He Treats of What Follows in the Same Epistle of Cyprian to Jubaianus · Chapter 3

6. Petilianus Said: "For What We Look to Is the Conscience of the Giver, to Cleanse That of the Recipient."

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7. Augustin answered: We therefore need have no anxiety about the conscience of Christ. But if you assert any man to be the giver, be he who he may, there will be no certainty about the cleansing of the recipient, because there is no certainty about the conscience of the giver.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Volume 4, ed. Philip Schaff (1886–89). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.