Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 113

113. That the widow and orphans ought to be protected.

In Solomon: &#8220;Be merciful to the orphans as a father, and as a husband to their mother; and thou shalt be the son of the Highest if thou shalt obey.&#8221; Also in Exodus: &#8220;Ye shall not afflict any widow and orphan. But if ye afflict them, and they cry out and call unto me, I will hear their cryings, and will be angry in mind against you; and I will destroy you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children orphans.&#8221; &#160; Also in Isaiah: &#8220;Judge for the fatherless, and justify the widow; and come let us reason, saith the Lord.&#8221; Also in Job: &#8220;I have preserved the poor man from the hand of the mighty, and I have helped the fatherless who had no helper: the mouth of the widow hath blessed me.&#8221; Also in the sixty-seventh Psalm: &#8220;The Father of the orphans, and the Judge of the widows.&#8221;