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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.
[2420] Oxford ed.: Ep. xlvi. a.d. 251.
[2421] [“Another bishop should be made.” What would have been the outcry of the whole Church, and what the language of Cyprian, had any idea entered their minds that the case was that of the Divine Oracle of Christendom, the Vicar of Christ, the Centre of Unity, the Infallible, etc.]
Epistle XLIV. To Cornelius, Concerning Polycarp the Adrumetine.
[2422] Oxford ed.: Ep. xlviii. a.d. 251.
[2423] [This refers to the episcopate. They had taken letters only to “presbyters and deacons.” Or to Christ the root, and the Church the womb or matrix. See infra, Letter xlviii. p. 325.
Epistle XLV. Cornelius to Cyprian, on the Return of the Confessors to Unity.
[2424] Oxford ed.: Ep. xlix. a.d. 251.
[2425] Novatian.
[2426] Baluz.: “Announced the swelling pride of some, the softened temper of others.”
[2427] [i.e., for episcopal ordination and consecration.]
[2428] [See Ep. xvii. p. 296, supra.]
[2430] [Episcopatus unus est. One bishop, i e., one episcopate. See the note, Oxford translation of this letter, p. 108, and Cyprian’s theory of the same in his Treatise on Unity.]
[2431] Baluzius reads, without authority: “Who would not be moved by that profession of theirs,” etc.
[2432] Oxford ed.: Ep. li. a.d. 251.
[2433] Some read, “might not be tried by the faith of their charity and unity.”
[2434] Some old editions read, “of that thing.”
Epistle XLVII. Cornelius to Cyprian, Concerning the Faction of Novatian with His Party.
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