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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.]
[2406] [Nothing of a “universal bishop” is intimated or heard of. The election is that of a bishop like any other bishop.]
[2407] [Here note, that the episcopate of Rome is in no otherwise regulated or regarded than that of any other See.]
Epistle XLI. To Cornelius, About Cyprian’s Approval of His Ordination, and Concerning Felicissimus.
[2408] Oxford ed.: Ep. xlv. a.d. 251.
[2409] The Oxford edition follows some authorities in reading this “sadness” rather than “gladness.”
[2413] Lit.: “that these things ought to be done.”
[2414] The co-presbyter here spoken of is Novatian. The Oxford text reads, “When such writings came to me concerning you and your co-presbyters sitting with you, as had the true ring of religious simplicity in them.” There is a variety of readings. [But think of a modern “Pope” thus addressed about a “co-presbyter.”]
[2415] [Cyprian, however, respectfully demands the canonical evidences from his brother Cornelius.]
[2416] [Every bishop thus announced his ordination.]
[2417] [Had such instructions proceeded from the Roman See to Cyprian, what inferences would have been manufactured out of them by the mediæval writers.]
Epistle XLII. To the Same, on His Having Sent Letters to the Confessors Whom Novatian Had Seduced.
[2418] Oxford ed.: Ep. xlvii. a.d. 251.
[2419] [On the frequent confusion of these names see Wordsworth, Hippol., p. 109.]
Epistle XLIII. To the Roman Confessors, that They Should Return to Unity.
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