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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.]
[2129] [This exercise of jurisdiction, vice episcopi, is to be noted.]
[2133] This is a very obscure passage, and is variously understood. It seems most probable that the allusion is to Peter’s denial of his Lord, and following Him afar off; and is intended to bear upon Cyprian’s retirement. There seems no meaning in interpreting the passage as a reference to Peter’s death. [It seems, in a slight degree, to reflect on Cyprian’s withdrawal. But note, it asserts that the pasce oves meas was a reproach to St. Peter, and was understood to be so by his fellow-apostles. In other words, our Lord, so these clergy argue, bade St. Peter not again to forsake the brethren whom he should strengthen. Luke xxii. 32.]
[2134] That is to say, “to the Capitol to sacrifice.”
[2135] Clinomeni.
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