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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.
[2516] [“To Cornelius their brother.” Now compare this with the abject conduct of Latin bishops at the late council of the Vatican. See Döllinger (On Unity, etc.), Janus, and Quirinus.
[2517] The superscription in other texts is as follows: “Cyprian, Liberalis, Caldonius, Nicomedes, Cæcilius, Junius, Marrutius, Felix, Successus, Faustinus, Fortunatus, Victor, Saturninus, another Saturninus, Rogatian, Tertullus, Lucianus, Sattius, Secundinus, another Saturninus, Eutyches, Amplus, another Saturninus, Aurelius, Priscus, Herculaneus, Victoricus, Quintus, Honoratus, Manthaneus, Hortensianus, Verianus, Iambus, Donatus, Pomponius, Polycarp, Demetrius, another Donatus, Privatianus, another Fortunatus, Rogatus and Munnulus, to Cornelius their brother, greeting.”
[2518] [Compare Luke xxii. 15, 42 and Ps. cxvi. 13.]
[2520] Ezek. xxxiv. 3-6, 10-16.
[2521] [“We have determined.” No reference to any revising power in the Bishop of Rome, who is counselled from first to last as a brother, and told what he should do.]
Epistle LIV. To Cornelius, Concerning Fortunatus and Felicissimus, or Against the Heretics.
[2522] Oxford ed.: Ep. lix. a.d. 252.
[2523] Indicating also by the way whence heresy and schisms are wont to take their rise, so that the letter is with good reason inscribed by Morell “Contra Hæreticos.”
[2524] [He was a purse-proud layman. But see Elucidation XIII, infra.]
[2525] [“The sacramental host of God’s elect.”—The Task, Cowper.]
[2527] 1 Mac. ii. 62, 63.
[2533] [This idea became embedded in the minds of Western Christians. See Southey, Roderick, xxv. note 72. The Fabulous Chronicle which Southey gives at length is a curious study of this subject.]
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