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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.
[2348] Matt. x. 33; Luke xii. 9.
[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.]
[2352] [This eloquent and evangelical letter proves that much dross had been burned away by the fires of persecution since the episcopate of Callistus. It is referred to, p. 309, note 4.]
Epistle XXXI. To the Carthaginian Clergy, About the Letters Sent to Rome, and Received Thence.
[2353] Oxford ed.: Ep. xxxii. a.d. 250.
[2354] [Administering jurisdiction sede vacante.]
[2355] [Illustrating the Treatise on Unity.]
Epistle XXXII. To the Clergy and People, About the Ordination of Aurelius as a Reader.
[2356] Oxford ed.: Ep. xxxviii. a.d. 250.
[2357] [Note again this principle of the Cyprianic freedom and evangelical discipline. Acts xv. 22; Matt. xviii. 17.]
[2358] Aurelius not being able to discharge the functions of his office in public, because of the persecution, in the meantime read for Cyprian; which is said to be an augury or beginning of future peace.
[2359] [That is himself. Compare Phil. i. 26.]
Epistle XXXIII. To the Clergy and People, About the Ordination of Celerinus as Reader.
[2360] Oxford ed.: Ep. xxxix. a.d. 250.
[2361] [See testimony of Cornelius, in Euseb., H. E., vi. 43.]
[2362] [He produced some momentary impression on Decius himself.]
[2363] [Gal. vi. 17. St. Paul esteemed such stigmata a better ground of glorying in the flesh than his circumcision.]
[2364] [Memorial thanksgivings. Ussher argues hereby the absence of all purgatorial ideas, because martyrs were allowed by all to go at once to bliss. Compare Tertull., vol. iv. p. 67.]
[2365] [He was called to preach and expound the Scriptures.]
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