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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.

[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.]

Epistle LXIII. To Epictetus and to the Congregation of Assuræ, Concerning Fortunatianus, Formerly Their Bishop.

[2710] Oxford ed.: Ep. lxv. a.d. 253.

[2711] Isa. lvii. 6.

[2712] Ex. xxii. 20.

[2713] Isa. ii. 8, 9.

[2714] Rev. 14.9-11.

[2715] Lev. xxi. 17.

[2716] Ex. xix. 22.

[2717] Ex. xxviii. 43.

[2718] John ix. 31.

[2719] [2 Thess. ii. 11. Judicial blindness the result of revolt from known truth.]

[2720] Otherwise, “the enduring vigour of that soundness which they have preserved and guarded.”

[2721] Eph. v. 6, 7.

Epistle LXIV. To Rogatianus, Concerning the Deacon Who Contended Against the Bishop.

[2722] Oxford ed.: Ep. iii.

[2723] At what time this letter was written is uncertain, unless we may gather from the similar commencement in both letters, that it was written at the same synod with the following one. Perhaps a.d. 249.

[2724] Deut. xvii. 12, 13.

[2725] [i.e., Levites—deacons. But Korah and the Levites (Num. xvi. 9, 10) must be regarded apart from the Reubenites (laics) who sinned with them. Jude 11.]

[2726] 1 Sam. viii. 7.

[2727] Ecclesiasticus 7.29.

[2728] Ecclesiasticus 7.31.

 

 

 

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