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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.

^[3806] Luke ix. 24.

^[3807] Luke xviii. 29, 30.

^[3808] Rev. xx. 4, 5.

13. That we receive more as the reward of our suffering than what we endure here in the suffering itself,

^[3809] Rom. viii. 18.

^[3810] “The eyes of the earth are closed” is the reading of other editions.

^[3811] [It is hard for us to retain the fact that for three hundred years to be a Christian was to be a martyr, at least in spirit and in daily liability. 1 Cor. xv. 31; 1 Pet. iv. 12.]

Treatise XII. Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews.

^[3812] [Addressed to Quirinus, and dated a.d. 248.]

^[3813] This sentence is otherwise read, “whereby it may be perceived and known that it is He Himself who was foretold.”

^[3814] [P. 227, note 3, supra. I cannot but note repeatedly how absolutely the primitive Fathers relied on the Holy Scriptures, and commended a Berean use of them. Acts xvii. 11.]

^[3815] [The canon assumed to be universally known.]

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^[3816] [These twenty-four propositions are specially worthy of the consideration of the young theologian who would clearly comprehend the Old Law and the New as St. Paul has expounded them in his Epistle to the Romans, and elsewhere.]

1. That the Jews have fallen under the heavy wrath of God because they have forsaken the Lord, and have followed idols.

^[3817] Ex. xxxii. 1.

^[3818] Ex. xxxii. 31-33.

^[3819] Deut. xxxii. 17.

^[3820] Judg. ii. 11-13.

^[3821] “And again they did evil.”

^[3822] Judg. iv. 1.

^[3823] Mal. ii. 11.

2. Also because they did not believe the prophets, and put them to death.

^[3824] Jer. vii. 25; xxv. 4.

^[3825] The words “and again” are sometimes omitted; and sometimes read “Moreover, in the same place.”

^[3826] Jer. xxv. 6, 7.

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