DE CENTESIMA, SEXAGESIMA, TRICE-SIMA. - Among excerpts from works of St. Cyprian and his passio, a homily on the three rewards of human life is inserted in two manuscripts. According to this interpretation of Mt. 13, 8, the hundredfold reward goes to martyrs, the sixtyfold to ascetics (agonistae), and the thirtyfold to simple Christians.
The anonymous author who cites the Acts of Paul also knows a (Gnostic) doctrine that places the Son of God alongside the six angels of the week of creation. The author himself is neither Encratite, nor Donatist, nor Priscillianist. His dependence on St. Cyprian is evident. He probably lived in the 4th century in Africa.
BIBL.: Edition of the text by R. Reitzenstein, in: Zeitschrift für neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, 15 (1914), pp. 60 ff.; On dependence on Cyprian V. H. Koch, ibid., 31 (1932), pp. 248 ff.; G. Krüger, in Schanz, III, 11, pp. 383 ff. For the angelology and Christology of the treatise V. I. Barbel, Christos Angelos (Theophaneia, 3), Bonn 1941, pp. 192 ff.; some points also in R. Reitzenstein, Zur Vorgeschichte der christlichen Taufe, Leipzig 1929, pp. 128 ff., 324 ff.