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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.

[2187] [After the manner of Hermas. Vol. ii. p. 24, note 2.]

[2188] Heb. xii. 6.

[2189] Col. iv. 2.

[2190] Luke vi. 12.

[2191] Luke xxii. 31, 32.

[2192] Rom. viii. 35.

[2193] [A vision granted to the pastor in behalf of his flock. See Vulgate version of Ps. lxxxix. 19, which Cyprian’s, doubtless, anticipated.] This prediction of settled times was published in unsettled ones; and it was fulfilled by the sudden and unexpected death of Decius, in his expedition against the Goths.

[2194] Luke ix. 62.

[2195] Gen. xix. 26.

[2196] [Saying, “our Father,” not “my Father.” Vol. i. p. 62.]

Epistle VIII. To the Martyrs and Confessors.

[2197] Oxford ed.; Ep. x. a.d. 250.

[2198] 1 John iv. 4.

[2199] [There is in the church of S. Stefano Rotondo at Rome a series of delineations of the sufferings of the early martyrs, poorly executed, and too horrible to contemplate; but it all answers to these words of our author. See Ep. xxxiv. infra.]

[2200] Ps. cxvi. 15.

[2201] Matt. x. 19, 20.

[2202] Isa. vii. 13; vide Lam. iii. 26.

[2203] Isa. vii. 14.

[2204] 1 Cor. ix. 24, 25.

[2205] 2 Tim. iv. 6-8.

[2206] [He contemplates the peace promised in Ep. viii. supra. But note the indomitable spirit with which, for successive ages, the Church supplied her martyrs. Heb. xi. 36, 37.]

[2207] Rev. ii. 23.

Epistle IX. To the Clergy, Concerning Certain Presbyters Who Had Rashly Granted Peace to the Lapsed Before the Persecution Had Been Appeased, and Without the Privity of the Bishops.

 

 

 

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