Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 86

86.&#160; That a schism must not be made, even although he who withdraws should remain in one faith, and in the same tradition.

In Ecclesiasticus, in Solomon: &#8220;He that cleaveth firewood shall be endangered by it if the iron shall fall off.&#8221; Also in Exodus: &#8220;In one house shall it be eaten: ye shall not cast forth the flesh abroad out of the house.&#8221; Also in the cxxxiid Psalm:&#160; &#8220;Behold how good and how pleasant a thing it is that brethren should dwell in unity!&#8221; Also in the Gospel according to Matthew: &#8220;He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.&#8221; Also in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: &#8220;But I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that ye be all joined together in the same mind and in the same opinion.&#8221; Also in the sixty-seventh Psalm: &#8220;God, who maketh men to dwell with one mind in a house.&#8221;