Therefore if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances,
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Cyprian of Carthage
AD 258
Of this same thing to the Colossians: "If ye be dead with Christ froth I the elements of the world, why still, as if living in the world, do ye follow vain things? ".
Moreover also elsewhere, that be may exhort us to martyrdom, he has called us fellow-heirs with Christ; nay, that he might omit nothing, he says, "If ye are dead with Christ, why, as if living in the world, do ye make distinctions? "
