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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.]
[2202] Isa. vii. 13; vide Lam. iii. 26.
[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.]
[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.]
[2213] “Exomologesis.”
[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.
[2218] Oxford ed.: Ep. xv. a.d. 250.
[2219] That these were everywhere soliciting the martyrs, and were also corrupting the confessors with importunate and excessive entreaty, so that, without any distinction or examination of the individuals, thousands of certificates were given, against the Gospel law, I wrote letters in which I recalled by my advice as much as possible the martyrs and confessors to the Lord’s commands.
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