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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.]
[2243] [Note the moderation of our author. 1 Pet. v. 5.]
Epistle XV. To Moyses and Maximus, and the Rest of the Confessors.
[2244] Oxford ed.: Ep. xxxvii. In the autumn of a.d. 250.
[2245] “Further, that you came to them in such way as you could enter; that you refreshed their minds, robust in their own faith and confession, by your appeals and your letters; that, accompanying their happiness with deserved praises, you inflamed them to a much more ardent desire for heavenly glory; that you urged them onward in the course; that you animated, as we believe and hope, future victors by the power of your address, so that, although all this may seem to come from the faith of the confessors and the divine indulgence, yet in their martyrdom they may seem in some manner to have become debtors to you.”
[2246] [i.e., confessorship. As to the time, see Treatise ii. infra.]
Epistle XVI. The Confessors to Cyprian.
[2247] Oxford ed.: Ep. xxiii. a.d. 250.
[2248] “Cypriano Papæ,” to “Pope” Cyprian. [An instance illustrative of what is to be found on p. 54, supra. See also Elucidation III. p. 154, supra.]
Epistle XVII. To the Presbyters and Deacons About the Foregoing and the Following Letters.
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