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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.]
[2635] Oxford ed.: Ep. lxii. a.d. 253.
[2636] It is probable that this captivity was the work of those barbarians against whom Decius went to war and was killed.
[2642] [Primitive Christians were grateful for opportunities to distribute gifts. Rom. xii. 13.]
[2643] [An immense contribution, for the times. In our money reckoned (for temp. Decii) at $3,757. For the Augustan age it would be $4,294. The text (sestertia) dubious. Ed. Paris.
[2644] [The diptychs are here referred to; that is, lists (read at the Eucharist) in which benefactors, living or dead, were gratefully remembered. Anglice, “beadroll.”]
Epistle LX. To Euchratius, About an Actor.
[2645] Oxford ed.: Ep. ii. Circa a.d. 249.
[2646] [In the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican, to the disgrace of the pontifical court, the fine music is obtained by recourse to this expedient, inflicted upon children.]
Epistle LXI. To Pomponius, Concerning Some Virgins.
[2647] Oxford ed.: Ep. iv. He suggests the kind of discipline by which virgins may be kept in their duty, and some matters concerning the power of excommunication in the Church. Circa a.d. 249.
[2648] [See vol. ii. p. 57, Elucidation II.]
[2650] Wisd. iii. 11.
[2651] Ps. ii. 12 (LXX.).
[2652] Some editors read here “fructu” for “ructu;” but Goldhorn observes that a similar collocation of eructation with error is found in Horace, Ep. ad Pis., 457.
[2653] [How coarse and brutal the pagan manners, which even the Gospel could not immediately refine!]
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