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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 9

21. Petilianus Said: "Hemmed In, Therefore, by These Offenses, You Cannot Be a True Bishop."

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22. Augustin answered: By what offenses? What have you shown? What have you proved? And if you have proved charges on the part of I know not whom, what has that to do with the seed of Abraham, in which all the nations of the earth are blessed?

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