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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[3653] Or, with some editors, “more increased in honours.” [To be purged from a Christian’s heart like a leprosy from the body. See Jeremy Taylor, sermon xix., Apples of Sodom. Quotation from Ælian, vol. i. p. 717.]
[3654] [The sin of Novatian and Arius. See p. 489, note 3, supra.]
[3655] [Another specimen of our author’s pithy condensations of thought and extraordinary eloquence.]
[3659] Erasmus and others give this reading. Baluzius, Routh, and many codices, omit “vulnus,” and thus read, “what is seen.”
[3660] [“It punishes the delinquent in the very act.” Jer. Taylor, ut supra, p. 492, also Anselm, Opp., i. 682, ed. Migne.]
[3661] Luke ix. 48. [Elucidation IX.]
[3662] [And all ground for a supremacy among brethren was here absolutely ejected from the Christian system. The last of the canonical primates of Rome named himself Servus Servorum Dei, to rebuke those who would make him “Universal Bishop.”]
[3669] Or, according to ancient authority, “of confession and martyrdom.” [Note this clear conception of the root-principle of the true martyr, and compare Treatise xi. infra.]
[3671] Or, “I have given you milk to drink, not meat,” is read by some.
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