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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.”
[3270] [What Cyprian testifies as of his own knowledge, we must accept as fact, however it be accounted for. For the rest, we may believe that the terrible excitements of the times led him to accept as real the exaggerated stories which became current. In our own days “the faith-cure” excites a like credulity.]
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