Cyprian of Carthage
That we must not please men, but God.
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55. That we must not please men, but God.
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In the fifty-second Psalm: “They that please men are confounded, because God hath made them nothing.” Also in the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians: “If I wished to please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”
Translated by ANF editors. Edition ccel.anf05.iv-v.en.