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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.
[2751] Oxford ed.: Ep. lxvii. a.d. 257.
[2752] Leon.
[2753] Astorga.
[2754] Merida.
[2760] “Antistites.”
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