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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.
[3702] [The astronomical idols seem to have been the earliest adopted (Job xxxi. 27), and so the soul degraded itself to lower forms and to mere fetichism by a process over and over again repeated among men. Rom. i. 21, 23.]
[3703] Ps. cxxxv. 15-18; cxv. 4-8.
[3704] Wisd. xv. 15-17.
[3706] Pamelius and others read here, “the gods who rule over the world,” apparently taking the words from the thirteenth chapter of the book of Wisdom, and from the Testimonies, iii. 59, below, where they are quoted.
[3707] Wisd. xiii. 1-4.
2. That God alone must be worshipped.
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