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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.]
[2739] Oxford ed.: Ep. lxviii. This epistle does not appear in many mss., and its genuineness has been therefore doubted. But the style points to Cyprian as its author, and the documents where it is found are among the oldest, one the most ancient of all. a.d. 254.
[2740] [With all Cyprian’s humility and reverence for the mother See, to which the Church of North Africa owed its origin, he yet, as an older bishop, reminds Stephen of what he ought to do to succour the Church of Irenæus.]
[2741] “By us,” viz., Rome and Carthage, provinces in communion with Faustinus.]
[2742] Suppl. “access,” according to Baluzius.
[2743] [Note the language, “with us, dearest brother;” not a thought save that of equal and joint authority.]
[2744] Some old editions read, “who, having avoided the rocks of Marcian.”
[2745] Ezek. xxxiv. 4-6, 10, 16.
[2747] [“We, many shepherds (one episcopate), over one flock.” Cyprian’s theory is never departed from, practically.]
[2750] [“You ought,” etc. Does any modern bishop of the Roman obedience presume to speak thus to the “infallible” oracle of the Vatican?]
Epistle LXVII. To the Clergy and People Abiding in Spain, Concerning Basilides and Martial.
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