{"id":660,"date":"2010-12-07T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/billykangas\/2010\/12\/cyprian-hold-what-you-have-lest-another-receive-thy-crown.html"},"modified":"2010-12-07T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T08:57:00","slug":"cyprian-hold-what-you-have-lest-another-receive-thy-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/billykangas\/2010\/12\/cyprian-hold-what-you-have-lest-another-receive-thy-crown.html","title":{"rendered":"Cyprian: \u201cHold what you have, lest another receive thy crown.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/394\/oldfiles\/_-tIsIJiAz5w\/TGmERVfZVZI\/AAAAAAAAAXA\/qsdhyJ0SARU\/s1600\/meet+the+church+fathers.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/394\/oldfiles\/_-tIsIJiAz5w\/TGmERVfZVZI\/AAAAAAAAAXA\/qsdhyJ0SARU\/s1600\/meet+the+church+fathers.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cConfession of Christ does not make one immune from the snares of the devil. Nor does it defend one who is still placed in the world with a perpetual security against worldly temptations and dangers and onsets and attacks. Otherwise we should never have seen afterwards among the confessors the deceptions and debaucheries and adulteries that now with groaning and sorrow we see among some. Whoever that confessor is, he is not greater or better or dearer to God than Solomon. As long as he walked in the ways of the Lord, so long he retained the grace he had received from the Lord. After he had abandoned the way of the Lord, he lost also the grace of the Lord. And so it is written, \u201cHold what you have, lest another receive thy crown.\u201d Surely the Lord would not threaten to deprive of the crown of righteousness unless when righteousness parts, it is necessary that also the crown depart\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Revelation-Ancient-Christian-Commentary-Scripture\/dp\/0830814973?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=orant-20&amp;link_code=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Revelation (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture)\" src=\"https:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=0830814973&amp;tag=orant-20\"><\/a><br>\u2014 Cyprian, THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH 20.28<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Revelation-Ancient-Christian-Commentary-Scripture\/dp\/0830814973?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=orant-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">William C. 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Nor does it defend one who is still placed in the world with a perpetual security against worldly temptations and dangers and onsets and attacks. Otherwise we should never have seen afterwards among the confessors the deceptions and debaucheries and adulteries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cyprian: \u201cHold what you have, lest another receive thy crown.\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cConfession of Christ does not make one immune from the snares of the devil. 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