Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 57

57. That the believer is amended and reserved.

In the cxviith Psalm: &#8220;The Lord amending hath amended me, and hath not delivered me to death.&#8221; Also in the eighty-eighth Psalm: &#8220;I will visit their transgressions with a rod, and their sins with scourges. But my mercy will I not scatter away from them.&#8221; Also in Malachi:&#160; &#8220;And He shall sit melting and purifying, as it were, gold and silver; and He shall purify the sons of Levi.&#8221; Also in the Gospel:&#160; &#8220;Thou shalt not go out thence until thou pay the uttermost farthing.&#8221;