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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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!]
[2656] [This abomination may have lingered in Africa much longer that elsewhere among the Punic converts from Canaanite manners. Ezek. viii. 13, 14.]
[2659] [The frightful condition of heathen society inspired the effort to maintain celibacy, but all this suggests the divine wisdom and clemency in restricting it to the few. Matt. xix. 11.]
[2662] [The horrible subject of this letter is treated in a valuable note (k) in the Oxford trans., p 7. It began earlier (see Hermas) than that learned annotator supposes; but the silence of Minucius Felix, and the pagan objector of his story, as to this specific reproach, suggests that it was of rare occurrence. Vol. ii. p. 235.]
Epistle LXII. Cæcilius, on the Sacrament of the Cup of the Lord.
[2663] Oxford ed.: Ep. lxiii. a.d. 253.
[2664] [A kindly rebuke of those Encratites who were called Hydroparastatæ. Epiphan., iii. p. 9, ed. Oehler.]
[2665] [1 Cor. xi. 2. Our author evidently has this in mind. He is admonished by such Scriptures to maintain apostolic traditions.]
[2666] [1 Cor. xi. 2. Our author evidently has this in mind. He is admonished by such Scriptures to maintain apostolic traditions.]
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