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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.]
[2366] “The brotherhood may follow and imitate these same persons;” v. l.
[2367] See Bingham, Book v. cap. 6, sec. 3.]
Epistle XXXIV. To the Same, About the Ordination of Numidicus as Presbyter.
[2368] Oxford ed.: Ep. xl. a.d. 250.
[2369] Otherwise, “unconquered.”
[2370] [Let us put ourselves in Cyprian’s place, and share his anxiety to fill up the vacant places in his list of presbyters at this terrible period.]
Epistle XXXV. To the Clergy, Concerning the Care of the Poor and Strangers.
[2371] Oxford ed.: Ep. vii. a.d. circa 251.
[2372] [Here, as elsewhere, spoken of in this way, in imitation of 1 Pet. v. 1.]
Epistle XXXVI. To the Clergy, Bidding Them Show Every Kindness to the Confessors in Prison.
[2373] Oxford ed.: Ep. xii. a.d. circa 251.
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