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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.).
[2823] Tinctus.
[2824] [See Cave, Prim. Christianity, p. 365.]
[2827] [The vigour of Cyprian’s logic must be conceded. The discussion will show, as it proceeds, on what grounds it failed to enlist universal support. It resembled the Easter question, vol. i. p. 569.]
Epistle LXX. To Quintus, Concerning the Baptism of Heretics.
[2828] Oxford ed.: Ep. lxxi. a.d. 255.
[2829] [Note this, at the outset: it is presumption in his colleague Stephen to act otherwise than as a general consent of the provinces seems to rule.]
[2830] [Otherwise, “which doubtless is one in the Catholic Church; and if this Church be one, baptism cannot exist outside the Church.” His theory of unity underlies all our author’s conduct.]
[2831] [Note this, at the outset: it is presumption in his colleague Stephen to act otherwise than as a general consent of the provinces seems to rule.]
[2832] Ecclesiasticus 34.25.
[2833] [The local custom of the Roman Province seems to have justified Stephen’s local practice. It is a case similar to that of Polycarp and Anicetus disturbed by Victor, vol. i. 310, and 312.]
[2834] [But a primacy involves no supremacy. All the Gallicans, with Bossuet, insist on this point. Cyprian now adopts, as his rule, St. Paul’s example, Gal. ii. 5.]
[2835] [Here, then, is the whole of Cyprian’s idea as to Peter, in a nutshell.]
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