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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.
[2436] Oxford ed.: Ep. l. a.d. 251.
[2437] [Oxford trans., p. 111. Elucidation VIII. and p. 319, supra.]
Epistle XLVIII. Cyprian’s Answer to Cornelius, Concerning the Crimes of Novatus.
[2438] Oxford ed.: Ep. lii. a.d. 251.
[2440] [See letter xliv. p. 322, supra.]
[2441] [“From her greatness;” he does not even mention her dignity as the one and only apostolic see of Western Christendom. And this is the case in subsequent action of the Great Councils. Rome, though not the root, was yet a “root and matrix.”]
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