Cyprian

Footnotes

^[2331] This letter was written, as were also the others of the Roman clergy, during the vacancy of the See, after the death of Fabian.

^[2332] “Pope Cyprian.”

^[2333] [Note τὰ ἀρχαῖα ἔθη, as in St. Paul, 1 Cor. xi. 16.]

^[2335] [God grant this spirit to the modern Christians in Rome.]

^[2336] No conception of Roman infallibility here.]

^[2337] [A concession which illustrates the present awful degeneracy of this See.]

^[2338] [1 Cor. x. 21, where tables and altars are used as synonymes.]

^[2339] Sacramentum.

^[2340] [See p. 304, note 8, supra.]

^[2341] [The whole system of Roman casuistry, as it now exists in the authorized penitential forms of Liguori, is here condemned.]

^[2342] [See Alphonsus de’ Liguori and the Papal Authorization, vol. i. p. xxii., ed. Paris, 1852.]

^[2343] [All-important is this testimony of the Roman clergy to the Cyprianic idea of the Church synods. See this vol. supra, p. 283.]

^[2344] [Note this principle, as a test of synodical decrees.]

^[2345] [Probably a quotation from a “bidding prayer” in use at Rome in those times. Elucidation VI.]

^[2346] In “sacramento,” scil. “fidei;” perhaps in a way in harmony with their religious engagement and with ecclesiastical discipline.

^[2349] [Note this faithful statement of scriptural doctrine, and no hint of purgatory.]

^[2350] [All this illustrates the Treatise on Unity (infra), and proves the utter absence of anything peculiar in the See of Rome.]

^[2351] [How different the language of the cardinal vicar, now, when he writes, sede vacante.]

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