| << | Contents | >> |
Cyprian
Show All Footnotes & Jump to 2849
Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[2839] [He quotes Acts viii. 17.]
[2840] The sense of this passage has been doubted but seems to be this: “The rite of confirmation, or the giving of the Holy Ghost, is of no avail unless baptism have first been conferred. For only by being born of each sacrament, scil. confirmation and baptism, can they be fully sanctified and be born again; since it is written, ‘Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,’ etc.; which quotation is plainly meant to convey, that the birth of water is by baptism, that of the Spirit by confirmation.”
[2841] John iii. 5. [Bingham, book xii. cap. i. sec. 4.]
[2842] [This case (Acts x. 47) was governed by the example of Christ, Matt. iii. 15. The baptism of the Spirit had preceded; yet as an act of obedience to Christ, and in honour of His example, St. Peter “fulfils all righteousness,” even to the letter.]
[2846] [Obviously, the law of liberty here laid down might introduce the greatest confusion if not limited by common consent. Yet the tolerant spirit of our author merits praise. P. 378, notes 1, 2.]
Epistle LXXII. To Jubaianus, Concerning the Baptism of Heretics.
[2847] Oxford ed.: Ep. lxxiii. a.d. 256.
[2848] In the year of Christ 256, a little after the seventh council of Carthage, Cyprian wrote a long letter to the Bishop Jubaianus. He had consulted Cyprian about baptism, and at the same time had sent a letter not written by himself, but by some other person opposed to the opinion of Cyprian.
[2849] [Letter lxx. sec. 4, p. 378, supra. Jubaian. was of Mauritania.]
[2850] [This helps us to understand the expression, p. 322, note 2, supra.]
[2851] Or, “the source of baptism which is one.”
[2852] [Note, that Cyprian believes himself to be sustaining a res adjudicata, and has no idea that the councils of the African Church need to be revised beyond seas. Letter lxx. p. 378, note 2, supra.]
[2853] Or otherwise, “and other plagues of heretics subverting the truth with their swords and poisons.”
[2854] Matt. xxviii. 18, 19. [Elucidation XVII.]
[2855] Jer. xv. 18 (LXX.).
[2856] John xx. 21-23. [See notes of Oxf. edition on this letter.]
[2857] [This sounds like Ignatius himself, whose style abounds in aphorisms. See vol. i. p. 45.]
[2859] John vi. 37, 38. [This quotation is amended by me, in strict accordance with the (ἐκ τῆς κοιλίας) Greek, which refers to the nobler cavity, not the inferior, of the human body.]
Search Comments
This page has been visited 0690 times.
| << | Contents | >> |
10 per page