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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[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.]
[4695] Or Gilba.
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