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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[2102] [See above note 1, this page.]
[2103] [The charismata of a higher ministry.]
[2104] [Nor does it make any one so. But the Fathers seem to have thought it made good men more humble.]
[2105] [This heathen word thus comes into use as applicable to all bishops. It was used derisively by Tertullian, vol. iv. p. 74.]
[2106] [Pontius is said to have followed his beloved bishop, a.d. 258, dying a martyr.]
[2107] [See Origen, “weeks of years,” vol. iv. p. 353.]
[2108] That is, Providence ensured the respite, to fulfil the promise.
[2109] [See note at end of this memoir.]
[2110] [He was the first of the province, that is. See p. 273, supra.]
[2111] The simple attire of Hippolytus, as seen in his statue, was doubtless what is here meant by insignia. But see Hermas, vol. ii. p. 12.]
[2112] In the Oxford edition this epistle is given among the treatises.
[2113] Wearying, scil. “fatigantis.”
[2114] “Fabulis.” [Our “Thanksgiving Day” = the “Vindemia.”]
[2115] [A lover of gardens and of nature. The religion of Christ gave a new and loftier impulse to such tastes universally. Vol. ii. p. 9.]
[2116] [Another Nicodemus, John iii.]
[2117] Or, “shone,” “infulsit.”
[2118] [Alas, that in the modern theatre and opera all this has been reproduced, and Christians applaud!]
[2119] Errors, v. l.
[2120] [Compare Tertullian, vol. iii. pp. 87 et seqq.]
[2121] [Rom. i. 26, 27. The enormous extent of this diabolical form of lust is implied in all these patristic rebukes.]
[2122] The dresses of peace.
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