Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians

but call them back as suffering and straying members, that ye may save your whole body. For by so acting ye shall edify yourselves.[67]

Tertullian On Repentance

to be anything other than yourself? Why flee from the partners of your own mischances, as from such as will derisively cheer them? The body cannot feel gladness at the trouble of any one member,[95]

Cyprian Epistle XI

And again he has laid it down in his epistle, saying, "Whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member rejoice, all the members rejoice with it."[4]

Cyprian Epistle LI

And again: "Whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member rejoice, all the members rejoice with it."[21]

Cyprian Epistle LIX

For who would not grieve at misfortunes of that kind, or who would not consider his brother's grief his own, since the Apostle Paul speaks, saying, "Whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member rejoice, all the members rejoice with it; "[3]

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