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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.”
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.
[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.]
[2727] Ecclesiasticus 7.29.
[2728] Ecclesiasticus 7.31.
[2732] [This is the Cyprianic theory.]
[2734] [See letter liv. sec. 16, p. 345, supra.]
[2735] Oxford ed.: Ep. i. a.d. 249.
[2736] The Oxford translator notes here that the Roman law did not permit this office be declined.
[2737] 2 Tim. ii. 4. [Are not these primitive ideas a needed admonition to our times?]
[2738] “Pro dormitione ejus.” Goldhorn observes here, rather needlessly, that it was unlucky among the ancient Christians to speak of death. [They counted death as a falling asleep, and the grave as a cœmeterium; and this prayer for the repose of the righteous was strictly such, that they might “rest from their labours,” till, in the resurrection and not before, they should receive their consummation and reward.]
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