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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[3250] Jer. xvii. 5. [Here is an emphatic repudiation of what produced mediæval indulgences, saint-worship, and Mariolatry. Of the latter, so pre-eminently the system of modern Rome, not a syllable in all these Fathers. “Quam ritus eccles. nescit.” Bernard, Ep. clxxiv., Opp.., i. 389.]
[3251] [All the whole base on which “indulgences” and the like rest, is here shown to be worthless.]
[3252] “To any.”
[3253] “On his facility;” v. l.
[3255] “Worthy of.”
[3256] [i.e., the confessors awaiting martyrdom. See vol. iv. p. 693, note 2.]
[3264] “And are angry.”
[3265] Some omit “and priests.”
[3266] [There can be no doubt where Cyprian would have been found in the times of Savonarola. See Perrens, Vie, etc., tom. ii. p. 350.]
[3267] [See p. 340, note 2, supra.]
[3268] Otherwise, “for the mercifulness of prayers.”
[3269] Some read, “and fell down.”
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