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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.

[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.

[2213] “Exomologesis.”

[2214] 1 Cor. xi. 27.

[2215] [Compare Tertullian, Ad Martyras, vol. iii. p. 693.]

[2216] [Note this persuasion of Cyprian, and compare St. Matt. xxi. 15-16; Luke xix. 40.]

[2217] [Celebrating the Lord’s Supper; Rom. 15.16; Mal. 1.11, texts which seem greatly to have influenced the language of the early Church.]

Epistle X. To the Martyrs and Confessors Who Sought that Peace Should Be Granted to the Lapsed.

 

 

 

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