Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 114

114. That one ought to make confession while he is in the flesh.

In the fifth Psalm: &#8220;But in the grave who will confess unto Thee?&#8221; Also in the twenty-ninth Psalm: &#8220;Shall the dust make confession to Thee?&#8221; Also elsewhere that confession is to be made: &#8220;I would rather have the repentance of the sinner than his death.&#8221; Also in Jeremiah: &#8220;Thus saith the Lord, Shall not he that falleth arise? or shall not he that is turned away be converted?&#8221;