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St. Cyprian of Carthage
“The Lord in His Gospel, when He would direct the way of our hope and faith in a brief summary, said, ‘The Lord your God is one God: and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment; and the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.’ Mark 12:29-31 He taught, at the same time, love and unity by His instruction. He has included all the prophets and the law in two precepts. But what unity does he keep, what love does he maintain or consider, who, savage with the madness of discord, divides the Church, destroys the faith, disturbs the peace, dissipates charity, profanes the sacrament?”