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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.

[3764] The Oxford editor reads, “Their feet are bound.”

[3765] Ps. xx. 7, 8.

[3766] Ps. xxvii. 3, 4. [The text is numbered by the old Latin.]

[3767] Ex. i. 12.

[3768] Rev. ii. 10.

[3769] The common reading is, “through the fire, the flame,” etc.

[3770] Isa. xliii. 1-3.

[3771] Matt. x. 19, 20.

[3772] Luke xxi. 14, 15.

[3773] Ex. vi. 11, 12.

[3774] [Confirmed in the New Testament, as if on purpose to silence unbelief (2 Pet. ii. 16). Cyprian is one of the few divines who note the light thrown on Balaam’s inspiration by the fact that even a dumb beast might be made to speak words, not of his own will.]

11. That it was before predicted that the world would hold us in abhorrence, and that it would stir up persecutions against us, and that no new thing is happening to the Christians, since from the beginning of the world the good have suffered, and the righteous have been oppressed and slain by the unrighteous.

[3775] John xv. 18-20.

[3776] John xvi. 2-4.

[3777] John xvi. 20.

[3778] John xvi. 33.

[3779] Matt. xxiv. 4-31.

[3780] Dan. iii. 16-18.

[3781] Bel and Dragon 5.

[3782] Tob. xiii. 6.

[3783] [Irenæus, vol. i. p. 557; also p. 551, and Barnabas, ib., p. 146.]

[3784] “Petrum” is the reading of Migne; but by far the more authoritative reading is “Petram,” “a rock.”

 

 

 

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