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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[2384] “Budinarius.” The exact meaning of this word is unknown. Some read it as another name: “Soliassus and Budinarius.” The Oxford editor changes it into Burdonarius, meaning a “carrier on mules.” Salmasius, in a long note on a passage in the life of Aurelian (Hist. Aug., p. 408), proposes butinarius, which he derives from βυτίνη, a cruet for containing vinegar, etc., and which he identifies with βοῦττις, the original of our bottle. Butinarias would then mean a maker of vessels suitable for containing vinegar, etc. See Sophocles’ Glossary of Byzantine Greek, s. v. βοῦττις. [Probably low Latin for a maker of force-meats. Spanish, budin.]
Epistle XXXIX. To the People, Concerning Five Schismatic Presbyters of the Faction of Felicissimus.
[2385] Oxford ed.: Ep. xliii. a.d. 251.
[2386] Some read “Britius” or “Briccius.”
[2387] “Clericis urbicis,” scil. the “Roman city clergy.” [A very important example of the concurrent action of the clergy of the metropolis with those of sister churches.]
[2388] “Romæ” scil. “across the sea, at Rome.” [The African canons forbade appeals to any bishop beyond seas.]
[2389] [Concerning this exile, see p. 270, supra.]
[2390] [“The elders,” i.e., presbyters. Our author plays upon the word, and compares the corrupt presbyters to their like in the Hebrew Church, from which this name is borrowed. Exod. iii. 16 and passim.]
[2391] Hist. of Susannah.
[2393] [See Treatise on Unity. Cyprian considers the universal episcopate as one cathredra, like “Moses’ seat” in the Church of the Hebrews. This one chair he calls “Peter’s chair.”]
[2400] [The high official tone with which Cyprian upholds his own authority is always balanced by equal zeal for the presbyters and the laity. On which compare Hooker, Polity, book viii. cap. vi. 8.]
Epistle XL. To Cornelius, on His Refusal to Receive Novatian’s Ordination.
[2401] Oxford ed.: Ep. xliv. a.d. 251.
[2402] [Cornelius has succeeded to the cathedra in Rome. Here opens a new chapter in the history of Cyprian and of the Roman See.]
[2403] Ordination to the episcopate was the term used. Consecration is the inferior term now usual in Western Christendom. Elucidation VIII.]
[2404] “In statione,” “stationary assembly;” these being the Wednesdays and Fridays in each week (Marshall). [See vol. i. p. 33.]
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