“During the persecution under Gallus (252), when the pestilence raged in Carthage, and the heathens threw out their dead and sick upon the streets, ran away from them for fear of the contagion and cursed the Christians as the supposed authors of the plague, Cyprian assembled his congregation and exhorted them to love their enemies; whereupon all went to work; the rich with their money, the poor with their hands, and rested not till the dead were buried, the sick cared for, and the city saved from desolation.”
Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church (Grand Rapids, 1973), II:375-376.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Whereupon
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