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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[2803] [Not any of his successors, but Peter personally, is thus honoured on the strength of Eph. ii. 20. All the apostles were in this foundation also, Rev. xxi. 14; but the figure excludes successors, who are of the superstructure, necessarily.]
[2804] [In all this his theory comes out; viz., that unity is maintained by communion with one’s lawful bishop, not with any foreign See.]
[2805] [See sec. 5, supra. This is the famous formula of Cyprian’s theory. The whole theory is condensed in what follows.]
[2806] Gen. xxxvii. 19, 20. [It seems a beautiful coincidence that another Joseph was a “dreamer” (Matt. ii. 20, 23); and in those days, when prophets and prophesyings were hardly yet extinct, we must not too readily call this credulity. Ps. lxxxix. 19, Vulgate.]
Epistle LXIX. To Januarius and Other Numidian Bishops, on Baptizing Heretics.
[2807] Oxford ed.: Ep. lxx. a.d. 255.
[2808] Ep. lxxi.
[2809] Mention is made of both letters in the Epistle to Jubaianus, and in the one that follows this.
[2810] “And true.”
[2811] [This is very much to be observed, at this outset of an important historical controversy. Cyprian was not conscious of any innovation. See Oxford Tertull., vol. i. p. 280, note.]
[2813] Prov. ix. 19 (LXX.).
[2814] [When a deacon baptized, he was regarded as using, not his own “key,” but the keys of the priesthood, and as simply supplying a lawful hand to the absent priest. See p. 366, note 8, supra.]
[2817] [i.e., confirmation, called chrism, or unction, from 1 John ii. 27 and other Scriptures.]
[2818] An authorized reading here is, “But further, the Eucharist and the oil, whence the baptized are anointed, are sanctified on the altar.”
[2819] [Material oil was not originally used in baptism or confirmation, but was admitted ceremonially, in divers rites, at an early period. Mark vi. 13; Jas. v. 14. Bunsen, Hippol., vol. ii. p. 322, note 1.]
[2820] Ps. cxli. 5 (LXX.).
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