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[8961] Written in his early ministry, and strict orthodoxy. [It may be dated circa a.d. 197, as external evidence will shew.]
[8962] Eph. iv. 30. [Some differences had risen between these holy sufferers, as to the personal merits of offenders who had appealed to them for their interest in restoring them to communion.
[8963] [He favours this resource as sanctioned by custom, and gently persuades them, by agreeing as to its propriety, to bestow peace upon others. But, the foresight of those who objected was afterwards justified, for in Cyprian’s day this practice led to greater evils, and he was obliged to discourage it (ep. xi.) in an epistle to confessors.]
[8964] [Who ministered to their fellow-Christians in prison, for the testimony of Jesus. What follows is a sad picture of social life among heathens.]
[8968] [He is said to have perished circa a.d. 170.]
[8969] [After the defeat and suicide of Albinus, at Lyons, many persons, some of Senatorial rank, were cruelly put to death.]
[8970] Cap. lv. He calls her fortissima martyr, and she is one of only two or three contemporary sufferers whom he mentioned by name.
[8971] [In the De Anima, cap. lv. as see above.]
[8972] [Yet see the sermons of St. Augustine (if indeed his) on the Passion of these Saints. Sermon 281 and 282, opp. Tom. v. pp. 1284–5.]
[8973] Hist. of Christianity, vol. i. ch. viii.
[8974] [Both Perpetua and Felicitas were evidently Montanistic in character and impressions, but, the fact that they have never been reputed other than Catholic, goes far to explain Tertullian’s position for years after he had withdrawn from communion with the vacillating Victor.]
[8975] Joel ii. 28, 29. [The quotation here is a note of Montanistic prepossessions in the writer.]
[8976] [Routh notes this as undoubted evidence of a Montanistic author. Reliquiæ, Vol. I. p. 455.]
[8977] [St. Augustine takes pains to remind us that these Acta are not canonical. De Anima, cap. 2, opp. Tom. x. p. 481.]
[8978] “Refrigeravit,” Græce ἀνέπαυσεν, scil. “requiem dedit.”
[8979] i.e. the grace of martyrdom.
[8980] Sibi vacabant.
[8981] Commeatus.
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