Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 95

95. That we are to live with the good, but to avoid the evil.

In Solomon, in the Proverbs: &#8220;Bring not the impious man into the habitation of the righteous.&#8221; Also in the same, in Ecclesiasticus: &#8220;Let righteous men be thy guests.&#8221; And again: &#8220;The faithful friend is a medicine of life and of immortality.&#8221; Also in the same place:&#160; &#8220;Be thou far from the man who has the power to slay, and thou shalt not suspect fear.&#8221; Also in the same place:&#160; &#8220;Blessed is he who findeth a true friend, and who speaketh righteousness to the listening ear.&#8221; Also in the same place:&#160; &#8220;Hedge thine ears with thorns, and hear not a wicked tongue.&#8221; &#160; Also in the seventeenth Psalm: &#8220;With the righteous Thou shalt be justified; and with the innocent man Thou shalt be innocent; and with the froward man Thou shalt be froward.&#8221; Also in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: &#8220;Evil communications corrupt good dispositions.&#8221;