Cyprian Treatise IX On the Advantage of Patience For we are not following after present glory, but future, according to what Paul the apostle also warns us, and says, "We are saved by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he hope for? But if we hope for that which we see not, then do we by patience wait for it."[29] Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews for it in patience."[612]