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Peter of Alexandria
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Introductory Notice to Peter, Bishop of Alexandria.
[2269] Virgil, Æn., book iii. 56:—
“O sacred hunger of pernicious gold,
What bands of faith can impious lucre hold?” —Dryden.
[2270] [Here “standing” = continuing. He knelt, no doubt, to be beheaded; but the corpse remained in this posture. A noble horse, shot on the field of Antietam, remained on the field in an attitude of raising himself from the ground, as I saw it myself.]
[2271] [This may be credited. See Cyprian’s Passion. But the technical names which follow seem an anachronism if technically understood. I say this with no spirit of objection to these vestments, however.]
[2272] [See Kingsley’s Hypatia. In Cyril’s time this might have happened: one trusts that for Peter’s day this, too, is an anachronism.]
[2273] [Another anachronism, and Occidental also.]
[2274] [See vol. v. p. 256, note 6, and p. 259, Elucidation II. Missa, a Latin word, has clearly no place here save by the Roman rule of reading modern rites into antiquity. Thus, in Raphael’s picture illustrating the story of 2 Macc. iii. 15, the Jewish high-priest is made a Roman pontiff. (Compare note 6, p. 261, supra.]
[2275] [See note 2, p. 265, supra.]
[2276] Achillas, the successor of Peter, admitted Arius to the priesthood.
[2277] Cf. Joshua ix.
[2278] Perhaps Absalom, or it may be Ziba, is referred to. (2 Sam. xiv. 33; xvi. 3.)
[2281] [The Canonical Epistles of Basil have been heretofore mentioned. Vol. v. p. 572, elucidation.]
[2282] These Canons of Peter of Alexandria are interesting as bearing upon the controversy between Cyprian and the clergy of Carthage, with regard to the treatment of the lapsed. They also bear upon the subject-matter of the Novatian schism.
[2283] Another reading is ἀνηκέστους, “which cannot be cured.”
[2284] The marks of Jesus, στίγματα. Cf. Gal. vi. 17.
[2286] Isa. lxi. 1-2; Luke iv. 18-19.
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