Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 107

107. That we must not use detraction.

In Solomon, in the Proverbs: &#8220;Love not to detract, lest thou be taken away.&#8221; Also in the forty-ninth Psalm: &#8220;Thou sattest, and spakest against thy brother; and against the son of thy mother thou placedst a stumbling-block.&#8221; Also in the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians: &#160; &#8220;To speak ill of no man, nor to be litigious.&#8221;