That we must not use detraction. - ANF05. Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

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107. That we must not use detraction.

In Solomon, in the Proverbs: “Love not to detract, lest thou be taken away.”⁴⁶⁰⁶

⁴⁶⁰⁶ Prov. xx. 13 (LXX.).
Also in the forty-ninth Psalm: “Thou sattest, and spakest against thy brother; and against the son of thy mother thou placedst a stumbling-block.”⁴⁶⁰⁷

⁴⁶⁰⁷ Ps. l. 20.
Also in the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians:⁴⁶⁰⁸

⁴⁶⁰⁸ Oxford edition, “to Titus.”
“To speak ill of no man, nor to be litigious.”⁴⁶⁰⁹

⁴⁶⁰⁹ Tit. iii. 2.
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