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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[2906] [Another of Cyprian’s striking aphorisms: “Consuetudo sine veritate vetustas erroris est.”]
[2907] Esdras iv. 38–40.
[2909] Original, “docibilis.” 2 Tim. ii. 24.
[2911] [Elucidation XVIII. See pp. 380 (note 1) and 322 (note 2).]
[2914] [It is obvious that the Cyprianic theory of unity has not the least connection with a theory depending on communion with a particular See. But this calculates the maxim, p. 384, note 7.]
[2915] [See letter lxxi. p. 378, supra.]
[2916] Oxford ed.: Ep. lxxv. [This is one of the most important illustrations of Ante-Nicene unity and its laws. Elucidation XIX.]
[2917] [But observe, in contrast, the language of Stephen, which he rebukes (sec. 26, infra), and his schismatical conduct towards the whole African Church.]
[2918] To the effect that he would not hold communion with them so long as they should persist in their opinion concerning the baptism of heretics, as Eusebius tells us from a letter of Dionysius of Alexandria to Xistus, the successor of Stephen, Hist. Eccles., book vii. c. 4.
[2921] [This is a sentence to be admired, apart from anything in the general subject.]
[2922] [Note the ignorance of these Oriental bishops of any superior authority in the Bishop of Rome. Athanas., opp., p. 470, Paris.]
[2925] [Apart from the argument, observe the clear inference as to the equal position of Stephen and his “primacy,” in the great Western See. For the West, compare Hilar., Ad Liberium, Frag.]
[2926] Probably “of men,” “nominum” in the original having been read for “hominum.”
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