Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 114
114. That one ought to make confession while he is in the flesh.
In the fifth Psalm: “But in the grave who will confess unto Thee?”[1] Also in the twenty-ninth Psalm: “Shall the dust make confession to Thee?”[2] Also elsewhere that confession is to be made: “I would rather have the repentance of the sinner than his death.”[3] Also in Jeremiah: “Thus saith the Lord, Shall not he that falleth arise? or shall not he that is turned away be converted?”[4]