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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.]
[3271] Some read, “of themselves;” others, “of their belongings.”
[3272] [Infant communion.]
[3273] “And receiving the blood as if some deadly poison,” etc.; v. l.
[3274] [They carried the sacred bread in this manner to invalids at home. The idea of “worshipping the host,” therefore, could not have been possible.]
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