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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 168

Epistle I. [2112]

… Argument.--Cyprian Had Promised Donatus that He Would Have a Discourse with Him Concerning Things Divine, and Now Being Reminded of His Promise, He Fulfils It. Commending at Length the Grace of God Conferred in …

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Augustine — Trinity, Doctrinal & Moral Treatises • SECTION 287

Councils, weight of, against heretics, [984]365.

… Custom, binding power of, [1006]263 sq. Cynegius, buried in the Basilica of St. Felix, [1007]539. Cyprian, St., on the unity of the Church, note, [1008]365. Danger, seeking, tempting God, [1009]520. Daniel …

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Augustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 207

[1450] 1 Cor. vi. 9, 10.

… With regard to the objection brought against Cyprian, that the catechumens who were seized in martyrdom, and slain for Christ's name's sake, received a crown even without baptism, I do not quite see …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 46

Canon I.

… time on there is an ever-swelling tide of praise; the reader must be referred to SS. Cyprian, Athanasius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Jerome, Augustine, etc., etc. In fact the Council of Trent (it cannot be …

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Augustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 289

Canon, as to holy orders of penitents, [1356]649.

… relation to Cyprian, [1422]411, [1423]436. commendation of good in all outside and correction of differences, [1424]420. denial of baptism as Donatist property, [1425]421. Donatists deny to have baptism, [1426]465, [1427 …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 19

Chapter II.

… I had in my mind a great desire to go to Carthage, to visit those localities connected with the saints, and, above all, to worship at the tomb [84] of the martyr Cyprian. On the …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 33

Canon I.

… that the judgment given against them was confirmed in 254 by an African synod held under St. Cyprian. The reader will notice how clearly the functions of a presbyter are set forth in this canon …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 226

Epistle LXV.

… Book X. [1515] Cf. below, "in terrena militia signatus." It appears that not slaves only, but soldiers also, were sometime marked on the hand. Cf. Cyprian, Ad Donatum, "Te quem jam spiritualibus castris militia signavit."

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 17

Letter X. To Paul, an Old Man of Concordia.

… by this schismatic, we may the more gladly drink of the antidote supplied by the holy martyr Cyprian. In the mean time I have sent to you, that is to say, to Paul the aged …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 239

Epistle LXX.

Epistle LXX. Cyprian, Liberalis, Caldonius, etc., to their brethren Januarius, etc. Greeting. When we were together in council, dearest brethren, we read the letter which you addressed to us respecting those who are thought to …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 23

Letter XVII. To the Presbyter Marcus.

… 7. [313] Cyprian, Letter LV. Cf. Cic. T. Q. v. accipere quam facere præstat injuriam. [314] Virg. A. i. 539-541. [315] Subsistenets. [316] The contemporary bishops of Rome and Alexandria. [317] Tert. Apol. 40 …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 161

Canon XXXI.

… Lib. v., cap. i.), Augustine and many others make mention of this rite, and above all St. Cyprian, who wrote a long epistle on the subject to Cecilius, and seeking the reason of the ceremony …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 430

Chapter I.

… 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 …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 20

Letter XVII [201] .

… Two centuries before indeed we have Cyprian in Africa uttering a somewhat similar complaint: e.g. de laps. vi., de unit. eccl. xxvi., Lett. XV. 3. It does not appear, however, there that the clergy …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 240

Epistle XXXII.

… now come to be acknowledged in a way that it had not been in the age of Cyprian, yet there seems to have been still some resistance to its exercise. This appears also from the …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 32

[510] Matt. xx. 16; xxii. 14.

… the maxim of Cyprian: Extra ecclesiam nulla salus, "Outside the church there is no salvation." [639] Exod. xii. 46. [640] 1 Peter iii. 20, 21. [641] James ii. 25. [642] Founder of the widely prevalent …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 179

III.

… 253.) In the treatise of Cyprian, De Unitate, we shall have occasion to speak fully on this interesting point. The reference to Kaye may suffice, here. But, since the inveterate confusion of all that is …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 66

Letter CLIX.

… Quesnel identifies this ceremony with the right of Confirmation, but the Ballerinii are probably right in thinking this a mistake, and in identifying it with the manuum impositio in poenitentiam mentioned by Cyprian and other …

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Augustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 424

Chapter 22.--The Necessity of Variety in Style.

… 36. [2005] Cyprian, de habitu Virginum, chap. xii. [2006] Ambrose, de Virginibus, lib. ii. Chapter 22.--The Necessity of Variety in Style. 51. But we are not to suppose that it is against rule to …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 177

Epistle X. [2218]

… Mouths with Sacrilegious Contact, or Had No Less Infected Their Conscience with Wicked Certificates," Etc. [2219] 1. Cyprian to the martyrs and confessors, his beloved brethren, greeting. The anxiety of my situation and the fear …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 188

Preface.

… the African. 64. Gemimus the presbyter. 65. Theodorus, surnamed Gregory the bishop. 66. Cornelius the bishop. 67. Cyprian the bishop. 68. Pontius the deacon. 69. Dionysius the bishop. 70. Novatianus the heresiarch. 71. Malchion the …

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