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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.
[2123] [Confirmed by all the Roman satirists, as will be recalled by the reader. Conf. Horace, Sat., vi. book i.]
[2124] [What a testimony to regeneration! Cyprian speaks from heathen experience, then from the experience of a new birth. Few specimens of simple eloquence surpass this.]
[2125] [See Cowper, on “the Sabine bard,” Task, b. iv. But compare even the best of Horatian epistles with this: “O noctes cœnæque Deum,” etc. What a blessed contrast in Christian society!]
[2126] [Here recall the Evening Hymn, vol. ii. p. 298.]
[2127] Oxford ed.: Ep. viii.
[2128] Papam. [The Roman clergy give this title to Cyprian.]
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