Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 107
107. That we must not use detraction.
In Solomon, in the Proverbs: “Love not to detract, lest thou be taken away.”[1] Also in the forty-ninth Psalm: “Thou sattest, and spakest against thy brother; and against the son of thy mother thou placedst a stumbling-block.”[2] Also in the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians:[3] “To speak ill of no man, nor to be litigious.”[4]