Cyprian

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^[2483] [I bespeak admiration for this loving spirit of one often upbraided for his strong expressions and firm convictions.]

^[2484] These words are variously read, “to be purged divinely,” or “to be purged for a long while,” scil. “purgari divine,” or “purgari diutine.” [Candid Romish writers concede that this does not refer to their purgatory; but, the idea once accepted, we can read it into this place as into 1 Cor. iii. 13. See Oxford trans., p. 128.]

^[2485] [The unity of the Catholic Church, in his view, consists in this unity of co-bishops in one episcopate, with which every Christian should be in communion through his own bishop.]

^[2486] [The independence of bishops, and their intercommunion as one episcopate, is his theory of the undivided sacrament of Catholicity.]

^[2487] Rev. 2.5.

^[2488] Tob. iv. 10.

^[2489] Rev. 2.20-22.

^[2490] Luke xv. 7.

^[2491] Wisd. i. 13.

^[2492] Joel ii. 12, 13.

^[2493] Ps. lxxxix. 32, 33.

^[2494] Matt. vii. 9-11.

^[2495] [Matt. v. 4. A striking exposition. “The quality of mercy is not strained,” etc.]

^[2496] [The primitive canons require the consent of a majority of comprovincials, and three at least to ordain.]

^[2497] [One of the many aphoristic condensations of the Cyprianic theory. Elucidation X.]

^[2498] Eph. iv. 2, 3.

^[2499] [“The body of his fellow-bishops,” as above.]

^[2500] 2 Tim. ii. 20.

^[2501] John v. 14.

^[2502] 1 Cor. vi. 18.

^[2503] 2 Cor. xii. 21.

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