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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[2556] [“Our fellow-bishops.” This council was held on the return of Cyprian, a.d. 251, soon after Easter.]
[2557] [“Our fellow-bishops.” This council was held on the return of Cyprian, a.d. 251, soon after Easter.]
[2558] [They were not appointed there by any “favour of the Apostolic See,” and Cyprian knows much more of their existence as bishops than Cornelius does.]
[2559] [Elucidation XI.]
[2560] Or, “with Privatus, the proved heretic;” or, according to the Oxford translation, “a proud heretic.” [See p. 308.]
[2564] Strictly, the phrase here as elsewhere is, “should do penance,” “pœnitentiam agerent.”
[2565] “That by the malice of the devil they may consummate their work;” v. l.
[2566] Scil. Capitol of Carthage, for the provinces imitated Rome in this respect. Du Cange give many instances.
[2567] Isa. xxix. 10: orig. “transpunctionis.”
[2569] [The organization of the laity into their freedom and franchises is part of the Cyprianic system, and gave birth to the whole fabric of free constitutions, in England and elsewhere.]
[2571] “Unless they had set up,” v. l.
[2572] [The Apostolic See of the West was necessarily all this in the eyes of an unambitious faithful Western co-bishop; but the letter itself proves that it was not the See of one who had any authority over or apart from his co-bishops. Let us not read into his expressions ideas which are an after-thought, and which conflict with the life and all the testimony of Cyprian.]
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