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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[2677] [For a full view of all theories of election, see Faber, On the Primitive Doctrine of Election, New York, ed. 1840.]
[2682] [See Justin, vol. i. p. 185, this series.]
[2686] Ps. xxiii. 5. [Vulgate, “calix inebrians.” Ps. xxii. 5.]
[2687] [A happy conception of the inebriation of the Spirit, “where drinking largely sobers us again.”]
[2689] [This figure, copied by St. Augustine (vol. v. p. 1247, ed. Migne), is retained in the liturgy of the Reformed Dutch communion.]
[2695] According to some texts is read here, “to offer wine, lest in the morning hours, through the flavour of the wine, its smell should be recognised by its fragrant odour by the perception of unbelievers, and he should be known to be a Christian, since we commemorate the blood of Christ in the oblation of wine.” [The heathen detected Christians by this token when searching victims for the persecutor.
[2696] Mark viii. 38. [Bingham, book xv. cap. ii. sec. 7.]
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