Cyprian

Footnotes

Epistle LVI. To Cornelius in Exile, Concerning His Confession.

^[2619] Oxford ed.: Ep. lx. a.d. 252.

^[2620] Damasus mentions this epistle in the life of Cornelius, as being that on account of which a calumny arose, whence the tyrant took an excuse for his death.

^[2621] [Note the entire equality of these bishops. Carthage and Rome are of equal sacerdocy.]

^[2622] [Cornelius the voice of his diocese only because they concur with him. Compare Leto, Vat. Council, p. 223 and passim.]

Epistle LVII. To Lucius The Bishop of Rome, Returned from Banishment.

^[2623] Oxford ed.: Ep. lxi. a.d. 252.

^[2624] [Hi episcopate lasted not six months. See Eusebius, H. E., vii. 2. He seems to have suffered martyrdom by the sword.]

^[2625] [Not Novatian. The organization at Rome is here glanced at, as answering to the Cyprianic theory in all respects.]

Epistle LVIII. To Fidus, on the Baptism of Infants.

^[2626] Oxford ed.: Ep. lxiv. [It would be unbecoming in me to add comments of my own on this letter. Such are the views of Cyprian; and one may see the opposite views, set forth with extreme candor, by Jeremy Taylor in his Liberty of Prophesying.]

^[2627] This letter was evidently written after both synods concerning the lapsed, of which mention was made above in Epistle liii.; but whether a long time or a short time after is uncertain, although the context indicates that it was written during a time of peace.

^[2628] [i.e., the decree of the synod, or council.]

^[2629] [See letter liv. p. 340, supra.]

^[2630] Luke ix. 56.

^[2631] [A marvellous relic of pagan ideas. A new-born babe, after its bath, makes no such impression upon civilized minds.]

^[2632] Tit. i. 15.

^[2633] Acts x. 28.

^[2634] [I cannot refrain from quoting a layman’s beautiful lines on the death of his son:—

“Pure from all stain save that of human clay,

Which Christ’s atoning blood had washed away.”

George Canning, a.d. 1770–1827.]

Epistle LIX. To the Numidian Bishops, on the Redemption of Their Brethren from Captivity Among the Barbarians.

^[2635] Oxford ed.: Ep. lxii. a.d. 253.