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Appendix for Book 5
Acts and Records of the Famous Controversy About the Baptism of Heretics.
[5340] “Papa” [as applied to all bishops. See p. 154, supra.]
[5341] Reference is made to this council in Epistles of Cyprian, No. lxxiii., and at large in Epistles lxix. to lxxiv., pp. 375–396, supra.
Introductory Notice to an Anonymous Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian.
[5342] [By Dr. Wallis, editor of vol. xiii., Edinb. series.]
[5343] Ch. (or sec.) 6, p. 659, infra.
[5344] Epistles, liii. p. 336, supra.
[5345] Hist. Gén. des Auteurs, tom. iii. ch. i. art. 4, sec. 2, note 4.
[5346] Ch. (or sec.) 1, p. 657, infra.
A Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian by an Anonymous Bishop.
[5352] Infelicissimi. This is supposed to be a play upon the name of Felicissimus, referred to in Cyprian’s letter, [xlviii. p. 325, supra].
[5353] [Ep. xl. p. 319, supra: et alibi.]
[5355] [See p. 602, note 12, supra.]
[5357] Varium.
[5359] This passage is altogether corrupt and unintelligible: some force is necessary even to give it an appearance of meaning.
[5360] Matt. xxviii. 19. [For the next sentence see Acts ii. 33.]
[5364] Zeph. iii. 1, 2, 3, LXX.
[5366] Scil. Gallus and Volusianus (Pamel.).
[5375] Ps. lxxxix. 30 et seq.
[5382] Luke vii. 39 et seq.
[5383] “Habebat,” but probably “debebat”—owed.
[5392] This refers to Novatian’s letter in the name of the Roman people. (See p. 308. Compare p. 320, note 6.]
[5400] [A misconception of Judas, who seems to have been hypocritical from the first. John vi. 64.]
[5402] This parenthesis is unintelligible. [i.e., not shepherds, but “butchers,” in the prophet’s thought, who speaks as follows, etc.]
[5421] [A virtual refutation of the dogma of purgatory, and all the trading in Masses which it involves. The pious Hirscher, in his Kirchlichen Zustände der Gegenwart (Tübingen, 1849; a translation of which, by the American editor of this series, was published, Oxford, 1852), bewails the corrupting influences of this system, though he died in the Papal communion.]
[5422] Ecclesiasticus 2.10,11.
[5423] [The Lord’s prayer; p. 454, note 1, supra.]
Introductory Notice. to Anonymous Treatise on Re-baptism.
[5424] [By Dr. Wallis, as before, p. 655.]
[5425] Gennadius, de Script. Eccles., cap. xxvii.
[5426] Sec. x.
A Treatise on Re-Baptism by an Anonymous Writer.
[5427] [“In the name,” etc., implies as Jesus Christ commanded, St. Matt. xxviii. 19.]
[5428] [This was assumed by the Westerns to be the general rule, whereas it was only local. See p. 408, note 7, supra.]
[5430] [The bitterness with which Vincent follows up the assumption, that there was a general custom of all the churches, shows how sadly this controversy became envenomed in the West. Cap. vi. is a blemish on his Commonitory.]
[5435] There is something needed to make the connection of this passage complete.
[5440] [It was a notable compliance with the example of Christ, Matt. iii. 15. “They had received,” etc., yet that was no reason why the ordinance of Christ should be slighted.]
[5444] “Jurejurando.”
[5446] [Query, superabounding?]
[5450] [Isa. xiv. 12. The sin of Lucifer had, very possibly, been this of rebelling against the Incarnation and the introduction thereby of an order of beings higher than himself. Hence our Lord recognised in Peter’s words the voice of the old adversary, and called him “Satan.” A premonition of his lapse.]
[5452] [It has been profoundly felt, that, as the Church of Rome in her early rectitude (Rom. i. 8) reflected Peter’s confession, so in her lapse (Rom. xi. 20, 21) she reflects this terrible rebuke. If she was once identified with Peter’s Rock, so now, alas! with Peter’s Satan.]
[5454] Scil. the bishop. [The plural of “solidarity.” See p. 128, note 5, supra, and Elucidation XI. p. 159.]
[5456] By him who hears the word is meant a catechumen (Rigaltius). [Bunsen, vol. ii. p. 317. He quotes the Apostolical Constitutions (Alexandria), “Let the catechumens be three years hearing the word,” etc.]
[5458] The original interpolates “non.”
[5459] [Scil. baptisms (?) i.e., of water and of blood.]
[5461] Matt. xxiv. 4, etc.
[5463] [Ezek. xxxiii. 12. On the principle that what is deepest in man’s heart proves, finally, the character;Phil. ii. 12. A very solemn consideration in human accountability (1 Pet. i. 17), but not to be disjoined from 2 Cor. vi. 10.]
[5464] [Vol. i. p. 505, note 12, this series.]
[5473] Unius atque ejusdem species.
[5477] John iii. 5. [Greek, πνευμα. Syriac as here rendered.]
[5479] Rigaltius says that Jerome mentions this document, and regards it as apocryphal. And Eusebius refers to the Περίοδοι Πέτρου, which, according to the common reading of Peter for Paul in the text, may point to the same document. [Vol. ii. 341, note 10; and vol. iv. p. 246.]
[5487] 1 John v. 8. [It is noteworthy that he quotes the Latin formula, and not that (εἰς τὸ ἕν εἰσιν) of the Greek. Now, the Latin, repeating (in verse 8) the formula (hi tres unum sunt) which belongs to the dubious protasis, is so far evidence that such a verse existed in the old Greek. It is important that the Latin is not conformed to the received formula of the apodosis, “the three agree in one.”]
Note by the Edinburgh Translator.
[5489] Eusebius calls him Novatus.
[5490] See H. E., book viii. chaps. ii., iii, and iv.; and vol. vi., this series.
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