Cyprian Treatise IX On the Advantage of Patience For if ye love them which love you, what reward shall ye have? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye shall salute your brethren only, what do ye more (than others)? do not even the heathens the same thing? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect."[14] Cyprian Treatise X On Jealousy and Envy But I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them which persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven, who maketh His sun to rise on the good and on the evil, and sendeth rain upon the just and on the unjust."[38] Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VI He that forbade revenge, now commands long-suffering;[142]