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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[4674] Of this council there exists no further memorials than such as have been here collected from Cyprian, and from St. Augustine, De Baptismo contra Donatistas, book iii. ch. iv., v., and vi., and book vii. ch. i.; and in these nothing else is contained than the judgments of the eighty-seven bishops on the nullity of baptism administered by heretics. If any one desires to see these judgments impugned, let him consult Augustine as above. The results of this council are given in Ep. lxxi. p. 378, supra.
[4675] Of course this implies a rebuke to the assumption of Stephen, [“their brother,” and forcibly contrasts the spirit of Cyprian with that of his intolerant compeer].
[4676] [This, then is the primitive idea of the relations existing, mutually, among bishops as brethren.]
[4677] Scil. of Mauritania; possibly, says the Oxford translator, Bidil, Bita, or “urbs Abitensis.”
[4679] According to some editions, “the sacrilegious man,” etc.
[4680] “Sacramentum interrogat.”
[4681] By the despotism of Stephen.
[4682] A city of Zeugitana. Augustine calls this bishop Felix, and speaks of him as the first of that name who spoke.—Fell.
[4683] This is the Polycarp referred to in Ep. xliv. p. 322, supra. Adrumetum was a colony on the coast, about eighty-five miles from Carthage.
[4684] In Numidia.
[4685] In Mauritania Cæsariensis.
[4686] Prov. ix. 12, LXX.
[4690] [He has no idea that this voice proceeds from any one bishop.]
[4693] In Numidia.
[4694] [This appeal to Scripture against Stephen must be noted, whatever we may think of his conclusions.]
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