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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 229

Letter LXX.

… servant and minister of God, who is also a very dear friend of mine, namely, our son Cyprian, deacon. Through him I expect to receive a letter from you with all the certainty which is …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 83

[748] Quis Dives salvetur, chap. 42.

… Tertullian, Hippolytus, and Cyprian are the next ones to use it in the same sense. Ritschl remarks in connection with this passage: "Da für eine Wahl der Gemeindebeamten durch das Loos alle sonstigen Beweisen fehlen …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 136

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… This looks like a bishop or a presbyter attending Asterius (compare Cyprian, vol. v. p. 319, [206]note 7, this series), and is a token that our author was a bishop.] [2167] enstasis. [2168] Ardabau …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 281

Canon I.

… 608] The Greeks speak of the canons of The Thirteen Holy Fathers, counting in the number St. Cyprian's canon, but as this was really Synodal I have placed it in that category. [609] In …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 173

Epistle VI. [2154]

… Being Exiled on Account of the Faith, Were Not Afraid to Return Unbidden into Their Country. 1. Cyprian to the presbyter Rogatianus, and to the other confessors, his brethren, greeting. I had both heretofore, dearly …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 5

Letter II.

… was not easy always to prevent them: it had become, for instance, a common practice in S. Cyprian's day in the North African Church (cf. de laps. 6). But the secular laws certainly countenanced …

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Chrysostom — Acts and Romans • SECTION 36

Homily XI.

… But how was he also a "Cyprian by birth?" Because they then even removed to other countries, and still were called Levites. "Having land, sold it, and brought the price, and laid it at the …

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Augustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 188

Preface

… of the arguments of the Donatists for the repetition of baptism; and proves that so far was Cyprian from being on their side, that his letters and conduct are of the highest value as overthrowing …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 40

Chapter X.

… command, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. St. Cyprian in his controversy with Stephen, Bp. of Rome, represented the sterner view that heretical baptism was invalid …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 61

Chapter XXVIII.--About Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata.

… Henceforward it appears as one of the minor orders, and is frequently referred to by Cyprian (Epp. 29. 38, etc.). By one of Justinian's novels it was directed that no one should be ordained …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 299

[4134] Ps. lxxii. 1, 2.

… in some Greek mss. So Irenæus, vol. i. p. 524.] [4138] Matt. xxv. 31-46. Third Book. Cyprian to his son Quirinus, [4139] greeting. Of your faith and devotion which you manifest to the Lord …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 263

Chap. XII.

… 27. [2251] Agrippinus, successor of Cyprian in the see of Carthage. [2252] Phil. iii. 15, 16. [2253] Ps. lxvii. 1, 2. [2254] See Ante-Nicene Fathers, Am. ed. vol. v. p. 379. [2255] Held at …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 213

Chapter X.--Valerian and the Persecution under him.

… The most noted were Cyprian and Xystus II. On the details of the persecution, see Tillemont, H. E. IV. p. 1 sq. [2216] i.e. the evil spirits. As Valesius remarks, the meaning is that …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 174

Chapter XI.--Alexander.

… The principle was in force from as early as the third century (see Cyprian to Cornelius, Ep. 40, al. 44 and to Antonianus, Ep. 51, al. 55) that there should be only one bishop in …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 18

Canon XI.

… xvij.)." [75] Cyprian. De Bono Patient., cap. xiv. [76] Morinus, De Poenitent., lib. v., cap. 5. [77] Vide, Thomassin. Lib. cit. Livre II. Chapitre vii. § xiii. where the whole matter of Nectarius's action is …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 225

Epistle LXIII. [2710]

… Because It Had Been Decreed that Lapsed Bishops Should Not Be Admitted to Their Former Rank. 1. Cyprian to Epictetus his brother, and to the people established at Assuræ, greeting. I was gravely and grievously …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 229

[2411] 1 Tim. vi. 5.

… They were usually sent by new bishops soon after their ordination." Valesius refers to Augustine (ibid.), to Cyprian's epistle to Cornelius (Ep. 41, al. 45), and to the synodical epistle of the Council of …

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