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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[4857] [The adoption of “the sign of the cross,” after the immersion of baptism, is referable to this martyr-age. It was meant to impress the idea of soldiership.]
[4858] Matt. iii. 10. [Elucidation II.]
[4861] Col. ii. 20; “decernitis.”
[4862] Gal. vi. 14. [Compare Ep. xxv. p. 303, supra.]
[4866] Or, “Manes.”
[4867] [Rev. vi. 9; also vol. i. p. 486, note 10, this series.]
[4868] [“Si tamen qui Christi compares estis aliquando peccastis;” not very happily translated, but extravagant at best.]
[4869] [Think, I say again, of three hundred years of such “fiery trial,” so marvellously sustained, and we shall gain new views of Christ’s power to perfect His own strength in human weakness. The life of these Christians was a conscious daily warfare against “the world, the flesh, and the devil;” and we must recognise this in all judgments of their discipline and their modes of thought.]
Of the Discipline and Advantage of Chastity.
[4870] [Not reckoned by Erasmus as worthy of Cyprian. Pamelius thinks otherwise.]
[4871] [This illustrates pp. 322 and 389, note 7.]
[4872] [“So dear to Heaven is saintly Chastity, etc.”—Milton, Comus, 455.]
[4873] [Holy men have generally recognised this rule as ennobling the estate of matrimony. See Jeremy Taylor, Holy Living, cap. ii. sec. 3.]
[4874] [This natural law, renewed in Christ, is part of the honour which He has restored to womanhood; honouring His mother therein as the second Eve. Matt. xix. 8; Gen. ii. 24.]
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