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Chapter 26.—50.  Also another Lucius of Membresa1830 said:  "It is written, ‘God heareth not sinners.’1831  How can he who is a sinner be heard in baptism?"1832

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.

Footnotes

  1. 1830

    Membresa was in ecclesiastical province of Zeugitana.  For Lucius, see Bk. VI. c. 38.

  2. 1831

    John ix. 31.

  3. 1832

    Conc. Carth. sec. 62.