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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[3681] Or, “that one should be such;” or, “that thou shouldst be such.”
[3684] Pamelius, from four codices, reads, “Let there be the divine reading before the eyes, good works in the hands.”
[3685] [“Habet et pax coronas suas.” Comp. Milton, Sonnet xi.]
[3686] The Oxford translator gives “blackness;” the original is “livor.”
[3687] Or “myrrh,” variously given in originals as “myrrham” or “merrham.”
[3688] [“Unde vulneratus fueras, inde curare.” Lear, act ii. sc. 4.]
[3689] “A fellow-heir,” according to Baluzius and Routh.
[3690] Prov. xv. 1, LXX.
[3691] “Return” is a more common reading.
[3692] Routh omits the word “heavenly,” on the authority of fourteen codices.
Treatise XI. Exhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus.
[3693] [Oxford number, xiii. Assigned to a.d. 252 or 257.]
[3694] [In the Council of Carthage, a.d. 256, a bishop of Tucca is so named.]
[3695] [Hippol., p. 242, supra.]
[3696] [Compare, On the Glory of Martyrdom, this volume, infra. This treatise seems a prescient admonition against the evils which soon after began to infect the Latin theology.]
[3697] [Note this chronological statement, and compare vol. ii. p. 334, note 5, and Elucidation XV. p. 346, same volume.]
[3698] Some read, “bravely abiding in the footsteps of Christ.”
[3699] [Compare the paradox of Rev. vii. 14.]
[3700] [“Baptisma post quod nemo jam peccat.” This gave “the baptism of blood” its grand advantage in the martyrs’ eyes.]
[3701] The Oxford edition here adds, “in the place of gods.”
1. That idols are not gods, and that the elements are not to be worshipped in the place of gods.
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