Tertullian On Idolatry

tests me! The cursing of well-maintained Discipline is a blessing of the Name. "If," says he, "I wished to please men, I should not be Christ's servant."[103]

Cyprian Epistle LIV

Nor ought the reproaches of the lost to move us in any degree to depart from the right path and from the sure rule, since also the apostle instructs us, saying, "If I should please men, I should not be the servant of Christ."[34]

Cyprian Epistle LXI

But if some of the perverse persons refuse to obey, let us follow the same apostle, who says, "If I please men, I should not be the servant of Christ."[15]

Cyprian Epistle LXII

And the apostle also speaks, saying, "If I pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ."[35]

Cyprian Treatise II On the Dress of Virgins

and that Paul also has gloriously and sublimely uttered, "If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ."[16]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Also in the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians: "If I wished to please men, I should not be the servant of Christ."[646]

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