Emphasis Preaching Journal

Paul realized that the people he is communicating with would be facing a difficult world. They would be despised, hunted down and persecuted. Just over a hundred years later Cyprian (200-258 AD) wrote to a friend, Donatus. In his letter he says that it is an incredible bad world. But in the midst of it he had discovered a quiet and good people who had learned the great secret of life. He told Donatus that they had found a joy and a wisdom which in his mind was a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of the sinful life.