Similarly we may say that we see with comparative distinctness the Christian Church of the Apostolic Age, and we see with comparative distinctness the Church of the Age of cyprian and Origen, but with respect to the interval separating the two periods we are not indeed wholly, but, we are, it must be confessed, very largely ignorant.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
cyprian encouraged the Church of his time to endure even unto martyrdom, by the words recorded of ancient Israel, that the more they afflicted them, so much the more they became greater and waxed stronger.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
To the spume of the sea was the cyprian goddess indebted for the whiteness of her skin-to the blue sky for the colour of her eyes-to the golden sun for the hue of her hair.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid