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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[2302] [An important testimony to Cyprian’s judicious retirement, in the spirit of St. Paul, Phil. i. 24.]
[2303] “Sanctum.” [Note what follows: a rule for our times.]
[2304] [An important testimony to the Cyprianic theory from members of the Roman presbytery.]
[2305] [The extent of the lapses which Cyprian strove to check by due austerity must be noted.]
[2306] [The casting of a grain of incense upon the coals before an image, to escape death.]
[2307] [Meats offered to idols.]
[2308] [Note the profound convictions in these very lapsers of the truth of the Gospel and of the value of full communion with Christ.]
Epistle XXVI. Cyprian to the Lapsed.
[2309] Oxford ed.: Ep. xxxiii. a.d. 250.
[2310] [This is the Cyprianic idea. The idea that this was peculiar to any one bishop had never entered his mind. See vol. iv. p. 99.]
[2312] [Elucidated and worked out in the Treatise on Unity, infra.]
Epistle XXVII. To the Presbyters and Deacons.
[2315] Oxford ed.: Ep. xxxiv. a.d. 250.
[2316] [At the Eucharist the alms and oblations were regarded in the light of Matt. v. 23, 24.]
[2318] Isa. xxx. 15, LXX.
[2319] “They which lead thee.”—E.V.
[2320] Isa. iii. 12, LXX.
[2321] [Thus Cyprian keeps in view “the whole Church,” and adheres to his principle in letter xiii. p. 294, note 1, supra.]
[2322] [Thus Cyprian keeps in view “the whole Church,” and adheres to his principle in letter xiii. p. 294, note 1, supra.]
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