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Interpretation and reception

To Demetrianus

Cyprian of Carthage

Explains disasters through divine judgment and asserts the end is near while rejecting pagan blame of Christians.

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Source. Translated by Robert Ernest Wallis. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 5. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) New Advent revised web edition.

Treatise 5, sections 5 and 23

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