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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.]
[2698] [Much light is thrown on this by the Hebrew usages. See Freeman, On the Principles of Divine Service, vol. ii. p. 293.]
[2699] “Frequentandis dominicis.”
[2704] Jer. xxiii. 28, 30, 32.
[2708] [A very important monition that clearer light upon certain Scriptures may break in as time unfolds their purpose. Phil. iii. 15.]
[2709] [Even these minute maxims show that the spirit of the third century was to adhere to the example of Christ and His Apostles. This gives us confidence that no intentional innovations were admitted.]
[2710] Oxford ed.: Ep. lxv. a.d. 253.
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