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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[2770] Elucidation XIV.]
[2771] [“Our colleague Stephen,” placed at a distance, ignorant of facts and truth, and, in short, incompetent to meddle with the African province in its own business: such was Cyprian’s idea of the limits to which even this apostolic See was restricted.]
[2774] Saragossa.
[2775] A collector of taxes, so called from the amount of his salary.
[2776] [Elucidation XV.]
[2777] [Surely a significant warning to our own times.]
[2778] Some read, “by the furnaces;” some “by arms.”
[2779] [A noteworthy testimony to the Decian period, when to be a Christian, indeed, was to be a confessor or martyr. Soc., H. E., bk. iv. c. 28.]
Epistle LXVIII. To Florentius Pupianus, on Calumniators.
[2783] Oxford ed.: Ep. lxvi. From his saying, that he has now discharged his episcopal office for six years (sec. 5), it is plainly evident that he is writing this letter in the time of Stephen. a.d. 254.
[2784] It is suggested with some probability, that this form of superscription was intended to rebuke the rudeness of Florentius, who, in addressing Cyprian, had used his heathen name of Thascius instead of his baptismal name of Cæcilius, which he had adopted from the presbyter who had been the means of his conversion.
[2787] [A mild remonstrance against the officious conduct of Stephen, also.]
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