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Cyprian of Carthage

That it was foretold that men should despise sound discipline.

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67. That it was foretold that men should despise sound discipline.

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Paul, in the second to Timothy: “There will be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine; but according to their own lusts will heap to themselves teachers itching in hearing, tickling their ears; and shall turn away their hearing indeed from the truth, but they shall be converted unto fables.”

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