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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[2151] [Strange, indeed, that such should be found amid the persecuted sheep of Christ; but it illustrates the history of Callistus at Rome, and the possibility of such characters enlisting in the Church.]
[2152] [“Whence hath it tares?” Ans.: “An enemy hath done this.” See Matt. xiii. 27; Acts xx. 29-31.]
[2153] [Elucidation II. This was the canonical duty neglected by Callistus and his predecessor, who “imagined,” etc. See p. 156, supra.]
Epistle VI. To Rogatianus the Presbyter, and the Other Confessors. a.d. 250.
[2154] Oxford ed.; Ep. xiii. [Rogatian was a bishop afterwards.]
[2155] A beautiful aphorism. See below, note 8, this page.]
[2162] [The shame of the Church is the shame of the bishop. See above, note 1; also 1 Tim. v. 22.]
[2163] Either as criminals having returned from banishment without authority, or as having committed some crime for which they became amenable to punishment. See 1 Pet. iv. 15: “But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer.”
[2164] Rom. xi. 20, 21. [How significant this warning to Rome!]
[2169] “Illustrata.” The Oxford translation has “bathed in light.”
[2170] [That is, if they have not actually committed the great sin themselves, yet, etc. See vol. ii. p. 57.]
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