Cyprian

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^[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.

^[2208] Oxford ed.: Ep. xvi. a.d. 250.

^[2209] In letter ii. we have noted a limited exercise of jurisdiction: the canons seem not to have allowed them the full powers these presbyters had used.]

^[2210] Matt. x. 32, 33.

^[2211] Mark iii. 28, 29.

^[2212] 1 Cor. x. 21.

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