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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.
3. What is God’s threatening against those who sacrifice to idols?
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