Cyprian

Excerpt from Cyprian: The Churchman

The Carthaginians were Phoenicians or Canaan ites. They were a Semitic race, but had none Of the ennobling religious conceptions of their kindred, the Jews. They are an everlasting Object lesson by contrast of what Divine revelation can do for a people. Who made thee to differ? They were one of the bloodiest and cruelest races of antiquity, and their religion the most hideous ever practiced by a people emerged from barbarism. If there had to be a war between Carthage and Rome, it was for the infinite gain of the world that Rome was con queror. But they were not exterminated; in the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.