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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.]
[2405] [Note the free use of this phrase by Cyprian. This also to the Bishop of Rome.]
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