Various Church Fathers
Chapter 26
Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy. — translated by ANF/NPNF editors
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Chapter 26.—50. Also another Lucius of Membresa said: "It is written, ‘God heareth not sinners.’ How can he who is a sinner be heard in baptism?"
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51. We answer: How is the covetous man heard, or the robber, and usurer, and murderer? Are they not sinners? And yet Cyprian, while he finds fault with them in the Catholic Church, yet tolerates them.
Translated by ANF/NPNF editors. Edition ccel.npnf104.division.v.en.