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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.
[2233] “Audientibus,” scil. catechumens.
[2234] [See Hermas, vol. ii. p. 15, note 6.]
Epistle XIII. To the Clergy, Concerning Those Who are in Haste to Receive Peace. a.d. 250.
[2235] Oxford ed.: Ep. xix. [See letter xxvii. infra.]
[2237] Faciunt invidiam: “are producing ill-will to us.” Those who were eager to be received into the Church without certificates would produce ill-will to those who refused to receive them, as if they were too strict. Thus Rigaltius explains the passage. “These,” Cyprian says, “should wait until the Church in its usual way gives them peace publicly.”
[2238] [Elucidation IV.]
[2239] [i.e., they can become martyrs, if they will.]
Epistle XIV. To the Presbyters and Deacons Assembled at Rome.
[2240] Oxford ed.: Ep. xx. a.d. 250.
[2241] Comp. Ep, xiii. to the Roman clergy.
[2242] [Another instance of this usage (κατ᾽ ἐξοχὴν), of which see p. 291, supra.]
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