The Treatises of Cyprian: Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews. 104That hope is of future things, and therefore that our faith concerning those things which are promised ought to be patient.

Cyprian · The Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume V: The Fathers of the Third Century by Philip Schaff

Open in the reader

45. That hope is of future things, and therefore that our faith concerning those things which are promised ought to be patient.

In the Epistle of Paul to the Romans: "We are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man seeth, why doth he hope for? But if we hope for what we see not, we hope for it in patience."