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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.
[2220] [Another instance of this word as applied to the bishop, κατ᾽ ἐξοχην. So in St. Chrysostom, De Sacerdotio = episcopatu.]
[2222] [He refers to his comprovincials, not arrogating all authority to himself. See Hippolytus, p. 125, note 2, supra.]
[2223] [The African Church.]
[2224] Oxford ed.: Ep. xvii. a.d. 250.
[2225] [The faithful laity. A technical expression, in the original.]
[2228] [Here is a recognition of the laity as contributing to the decisive action. 1 Cor. v. 4.]
[2229] [Elucidation III.; also Ignatius, vol. i. p. 69.]
[2230] Oxford ed.: Ep. xviii. a.d. 250.
[2231] “Concerning this also I wrote twice to the clergy, and commanded it to be read to them, that for the mitigation of their violence in any manner for the meantime, if any who had received a certificate from the martyrs were departing from this life, having made confession and received the hands imposed upon them for repentance, they should be remitted to the Lord with the peace promised them by the martyrs,” etc.
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