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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.]
[2499] [“The body of his fellow-bishops,” as above.]
[2508] [“Fools make a mock at sin.” But what serious reflections are inspired by the solemn discipline of primitive Christianity! Mercy is magnified, indeed, but pardon and peace are made worth striving after. Repentance is made a reality, and we hear nothing of mechanical penances and absolutions.]
[2509] [He has never heard of indulgences and masses for the dead, nor of purgatorial remission. See p. 332, note 7.]
[2510] [To the unity of our common episcopate. Note this; for, if he had imagined Cornelius to have been a “Pope,” he must have said, “to unity with the true pontiff, against whom Novatian has rebelled, and made himself an anti-pope.”]
[2511] Oxford ed.: Ep. lvi. a.d. 252.
[2512] According to some readings, “the name of the Lord.”
[2513] [The sweetness, moderation, and prudence of this letter are alike commendable. But let us reflect what it meant to confess Christ in those days.]
Epistle LIII. To Cornelius, Concerning Granting Peace to the Lapsed.
[2514] Oxford ed.: Ep. lvii.
[2515] As the African bishops had previously decided in a certain council, that the lapsed, except after long penitence, should not be received to peace, unless perchance peril of sickness was urgent; now on the appearance of a new persecution they decided that peace was to be granted to all those who had repented, so that they might be the more courageous for the contest of suffering.
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