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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.]
[2573] [To be interpreted by Epistle xxx. p. 308, supra. Elucidation XII.]
[2574] [Note this decree, “by all of us,” and what follows.]
[2575] [Only “desperate and abandoned men” could make light of other bishops, by carrying their case from their own province to Rome. This was forbidden by canons. Cyprian’s respect for the mother See was like that felt by Anglo-Americans for Canterbury, involving no subjection in the least degree. See Elucidation XIII.]
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