Chapter 11.—20. Paul of Bobba1787
| 1787 Bobba (Obba) was in ecclesiastical province of Mauritania Cæsariensis, including Tingitana. A bishop Paul is mentioned in Cypr. Ep. lxvii.
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said: "I for my part am not moved if some
fail to uphold the
faith and
truth of the
Church, seeing that the
apostle says ‘For what if some did not believe? shall their
unbelief make the
faith of
God without effect?
God forbid: yea let
God be true, but every man a
liar.’
1788
But if
God be true, how can the
truth of
baptism be in the
company of
heretics, where
God is not?"
1789
| 1789 Conc. Carth. sec. 47.
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21. To him we answer: What is God among the covetous? And yet baptism exists among them; and so also it exists among heretics. For they among whom God is, are the temple of God. "But what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?"1790
Further,
Paul considers, and Cyprian agrees with him, that covetousness is idolatry; and Cyprian himself again associates with his colleagues, who were robbers, but yet baptized, with great reward of toleration.
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