Cyprian Epistle LXXVI I bid you, most blessed and most beloved brethren, ever farewell in the Lord, and always and everywhere remember me.[16] Cyprian Treatise VII On the Mortality Remembering which truth, the blessed Apostle Paul in his epistle lays it down, saying, "To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain; "[15] Pseudo-Cyprian On the Glory of Martyrdom Moreover, also, the blessed Apostle Paul exclaimed, and said, "To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."[14]