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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.”]
[2443] [Cyprian’s idea of unity as expounded in his treatise, infra.]
Epistle XLIX. Maximus and the Other Confessors to Cyprian, About Their Return from Schism.
[2444] Oxford ed.: Ep. liii. a.d. 251.
[2445] [The language of this letter clearly demonstrates the primitive condition of the Roman clergy and their bishop, and their entire unconsciousness of any exceptional position in their estate or relations to other churches. “Our bishop”—not Urbis et Orbis papa.]
Epistle L. From Cyprian to the Confessors, Congratulating Them on Their Return from Schism.
[2446] Oxford ed.: Ep. liv. a.d. 252.
[2448] [i.e., On Unity and On the Lapsers.]
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