The Epistles of Cyprian
Treatise I. On the Unity of the Church.
Treatise II. On the Dress of Virgins.
Treatise III. On the Lapsed.
Treatise IV. On the Lord's Prayer.
Treatise V. An Address to Demetrianus.
Treatise VI. On the Vanity of Idols
Treatise VII. On the Mortality.
Treatise VIII. On Works and Alms.
Treatise IX. On the Advantage of Patience.
Treatise X. On Jealousy and Envy.
Treatise XI. Exhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus.
Treatise XII. Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews.
The Seventh Council of Carthage Under Cyprian.
Cyprian - On the Public Shows.
Cyprian - On the Glory of Martyrdom.
Cyprian - Of the Discipline and Advantage of Chastity.
Cyprian - Exhortation to Repentance.

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CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE

Cyprian (c. AD 200-258) was born in Carthage of a wealthy family. He was converted through his reading of the Scriptures and Tertullian's writings. Following his conversion in his late 40s, he gave much of his wealth to the poor. A year later he was elected a presbyter, and the following year (AD 248), he filled the office of bishop of Carthage, after the death of the previous bishop.

When appointed bishop of Carthage, he accepted the honourable title of 'Papa' (i.e. pope or father). The bishop of Alexandria was the first to accept this title. Afterwards, the title was adopted by the bishop of Rome.

For the remaining ten years of his life, Cyprian labored incessantly. It was a stormy period of persecution without, and agitation within, the church. When the Decian persecution came upon the church, Cyprian saw in it God's judgment upon her for her laxity, desire for wealth, fraudulance, false oaths, slander and deceit.

During the persecution, Cyprian fled, but justified his own action by saying that it was not the time for his martyrdom - maintaining that it was biblical to flee from such persecution rather than court martyrdom. While in hiding, he wrote many letters of encouragement to his presbyters and deacons.

When persecution died down, he returned to Carthage and presided over the Council of Carthage in 251 AD, which decided that pardon could only be granted to lapsed Christians after a proper period of penitence.

Two later councils held in 254 and 256 AD, again presided over by Cyprian, dealt with the issue of the validity of heretical baptism, and decided that it was invalid - even though performed in the name of the Trinity. This was opposed by bishop Stephen of Rome and occasioned much controversy. Shortly afterwards, Cyprian was martyred in the Valerian persecution - displaying inflexible courage and faithfulness in his stand as a Christian.

The Young Carthaginian 220 BC

The Young Carthaginian: A Story of the Times of Hannibal

There is more to Hannibal than elephants and the Alps. The struggle between Rome and Carthage was at first a struggle for empire, and afterwards for existence on the part of Carthage. Hannibal defeated the Romans at Trebia, Lake Trasimenus, and Cannae, and all but took Rome. Malchus, Hannibal's cousin, witnesses the political corruption in Carthage at the time of its decline. As political parties fight among themselves for supremacy, young Malchus begins to question the usefulness of fighting for a debased civil government. Mr. Henty's classic work, The Young Carthaginian, will expose readers to the manners, customs, religion, and politics of Carthage and Rome. Within the pages of The Young Carthaginian the importance of Italian geography comes alive and leaves one breathless at Hannibal's feats in overcoming these barriers. Date: 220 B. C. / Location: North Africa / Main Event: Hannibal's Campaigns


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Carthage

PREFACE.

MY DEAR LADS,

When I was a boy at school, if I remember rightly, our sympathies were generally with the Carthaginians as against the Romans. Why they were so, except that one generally sympathizes with the unfortunate, I do not quite know; certainly we had but a hazy idea as to the merits of the struggle and knew but little of its events, for the Latin and Greek authors, which serve as the ordinary textbooks in schools, do not treat of the Punic wars. That it was a struggle for empire at first, and latterly one for existence on the part of Carthage, that Hannibal was a great and skilful general, that he defeated the Romans at Trebia, Lake Trasimenus, and Cannae, and all but took Rome, and that the Romans behaved with bad faith and great cruelty at the capture of Carthage, represents, I think, pretty nearly the sum total of our knowledge.

I am sure I should have liked to know a great deal more about this struggle for the empire of the world, and as I think that most of you would also like to do so, I have chosen this subject for my story. Fortunately there is no lack of authentic material from which to glean the incidents of the struggle. Polybius visited all the passes of the Alps some forty years after the event, and conversed with tribesmen who had witnessed the passage of Hannibal, and there can be no doubt that his descriptions are far more accurate than those of Livy, who wrote somewhat later and had no personal knowledge of the affair. Numbers of books have been written as to the identity of the passes traversed by Hannibal. The whole of these have been discussed and summarized by Mr. W. J. Law, and as it appears to me that his arguments are quite conclusive I have adopted the line which he lays down as that followed by Hannibal.

In regard to the general history of the expedition, and of the manners, customs, religion, and politics of Carthage, I have followed M. Hennebert in his most exhaustive and important work on the subject. I think that when you have read to the end you will perceive that although our sympathies may remain with Hannibal and the Carthaginians, it was nevertheless for the good of the world that Rome was the conqueror in the great struggle for empire. At the time the war began Carthage was already corrupt to the core, and although she might have enslaved many nations she would never have civilized them. Rome gave free institutions to the people she conquered, she subdued but she never enslaved them, but rather strove to plant her civilization among them and to raise them to her own level. Carthage, on the contrary, was from the first a cruel mistress to the people she conquered. Consequently while all the peoples of Italy rallied round Rome in the days of her distress, the tribes subject to Carthage rose in insurrection against her as soon as the presence of a Roman army gave them a hope of escape from their bondage.

Had Carthage conquered Rome in the struggle she could never have extended her power over the known world as Rome afterwards did, but would have fallen to pieces again from the weakness of her institutions and the corruption of her people. Thus then, although we may feel sympathy for the failure and fate of the noble and chivalrous Hannibal himself, we cannot regret that Rome came out conqueror in the strife, and was left free to carry out her great work of civilization.

Yours sincerely,

G. A. Henty

BBC Ancient Egypt Pyramid Challenge

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Journey back four and a half thousand years to Egypt's Old Kingdom, to the Pyramid Age.

As the vizier, or head of state, you are about to undertake the most important project of your career - the building of the king’s pyramid.

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The Cat of Bubastes AD 1250

The Cat of Bubastes:

Enslaved by a conquering army, the young
prince Amuba finds friendship in the house of an Egyptian
high priest, where he acts as a companion to the priest's son
Chebron. The entire household plunges into peril when
Chebron accidentally kills the sacred cat of the great temple
at Bubastes--a riot ensues, and the boys are forced to flee.
Set in 1250 b.c., the time of Moses, this thrilling adventure
story offers an evocative look at the ancient Egyptian world.
Skillfully interwoven in the narrative thread are fascinating,
accurate details about Egyptian religion and geography, the
methods by which the Nile was used for irrigation, and how
the Egyptians made war and were prepared for burial. (The
Cat of Bubastes by GA Henty: J HEN)


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MY DEAR LADS,

Thanks to the care with which the Egyptians depicted
upon the walls of their sepulchres the minutest doings of
their daily life, to the dryness of the climate which has
preserved these records uninjured for so many thousand years,
and to the indefatigable labour of modern investigators, we
know far more of the manners and customs of the Egyptians,
of their methods of work, their sports and amusements, their
public festivals, and domestic life, than we do of those of
peoples comparatively modern. My object in the present
story has been to give you as lively a picture as possible of
that life, drawn from the bulky pages of Sir J. Gardner
Wilkinson and other writers on the same subject. I have
laid the scene in the time of Thotmes III., one of the great
est of the Egyptian monarchs, being surpassed only in glory
and the extent of his conquests by Rameses the Great. It
is certain that Thotmes carried the arms of Egypt to the
shores of the Caspian, and a people named the Rebu, with
fair hair and blue eyes, were among those depicted in the
Egyptian sculptures as being conquered and made tributary.
It is open to discussion whether the Exodus of the Jews
from Egypt took place in the reign of Thotmes or many
years subsequently, some authors assigning it to the time
of Rameses. Without attempting to enter into this much
discussed question, I have assumed that the Israelites were

iv PREFACE.

still in Egypt at the time of Thotmes, and by introducing
Moses just at the time he began to take up the cause of the
people to whom he belonged, I leave it to be inferred that
the Exodus took place some forty years later. I wish you
to understand, however, that you are not to accept this date
as being absolutely correct. Opinions differ widely upon it;
and as no allusion whatever has been discovered either to
the Exodus, or to any of the events which preceded it,
among the records of Egypt, there is nothing to fix the
date as occurring during the reign of any one among the
long line of Egyptian kings. The term Pharaoh used in
the Bible throws no light upon the subject, as Pharaoh
simply means king, and the name of no monarch bearing
that appellation is to be found on the Egyptian monuments.
I have in no way exaggerated the consequences
arising from the slaying of the sacred cat, as the accidental
killing of any cat whatever was an offense punished
by death throughout the history of Egypt down to the time
of the Roman connection with that country.

Yours sincerely,

G. A. HENTY.

• Baby Moses
• The Burning Bush
• The Plagues on Egypt
• Crossing the Red Sea
• The Ten Commandments
• The Tabernacle
• Exploring Canaan
• Crossing Jordan

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Ephesians 1:11
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