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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[4767] [The Nicene Creed is emphatic in the article based on this idea; and it proves that the primitive discipline of penitence was not in those days a “sacrament of absolution,” to which all were compelled to submit. Private confessions seem to have been unknown.]
[4768] “Usilla,” a city of Byzacena.
[4769] Possibly “Cerbaliana” in Byzacena.
[4770] A city of Numidia.
[4771] [The bearings of this simple statement upon the later claims of Stephen’s See must not be overlooked.]
[4772] A city of Numidia Byzacenæ.
[4774] A city of Zeugitana; some read “Tumida.”
[4775] A city of Zeugitana.
[4776] A city of Mauritania Cæsariensis. Fell observes that in Numidia are many cities of the name of “Nova” or “Noba.”
[4777] A city of Zeugitana. There were two cities of the name—Βουλλαρία, or Bulla Regia, and Βουλλαμίνσα, or Bulla Minor. The latter is probably referred to.
[4778] Otherwise “Memosita,” a city of Zeugitana. It is also written “Membrosa.”
[4780] Probably “Byzacene.”
[4781] [Custom, then, was elsewhere established: and it ultimately prevailed; whether against truth or not, need not here be discussed.]
[4782] This is supposed to be “Autenti,” a city of Byzacene.
[4783] Supposed to be Aggiva.
[4784] Mention of the Bishop of Marcelliana is found in Notitia Episcopatus Africæ.
[4785] A village belonging to Byzacene, seventy-five miles from Carthage.
[4786] A city of Zeugitana.
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