Cyprian Treatise VII On the Mortality It disturbs some that this mortality is common to us with others; and yet what is there in this world which is not common to us with others, so long as this flesh of ours still remains, according to the law of our first birth, common to us with them? So long as we are here in the world, we are associated with the human race in fleshly equality,[16] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X "For all that will to live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."[122]