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Augustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 197

[1244] Cypr. Ep. lxxi. 4.

… But what attitude do they assume, when it is shown that the holy Cyprian, though he did not himself admit as members of the Church those who had been baptized in heresy or schism, yet …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 230

Epistle V.

… To Cyprian, Deacon. Gregory to Cyprian, Deacon and Rector of Sicily. It has been reported to us that a native of the province of Lucania, Petronilla by name, was converted [1528] through the exhortation of …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 52

Chapter IX.--The Prophets Inspired by the Holy Ghost.

… 3) Cyprian presses it against the Jews, which shows that they accepted the Hebrew and the LXX. in a mystical sense.] [567] Literally, belching or vomiting. [The reference is to Ps. xlv. where the LXX …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 212

Chapter IX.--The Ungodly Baptism of the Heretics.

… But it may perhaps be suggested that the well-known Carthaginian Confessor is meant, who caused Cyprian so much trouble by granting letters of pardon indiscriminately to the lapsed, in defiance of regular custom and …

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Augustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 418

Chapter 13.--The Hearer Must Be Moved as Well as Instructed.

… And something of this sort occurs in a letter of the blessed Cyprian, which, I think, came there by accident, or else was inserted designedly with this view, that posterity might see how the wholesome …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 183

Epistle XIX. [2259]

Epistle XIX. [2259] Cyprian Replies to Caldonius. Argument.--Cyprian Treats of Nothing Peculiar in This Epistle, Beyond Acquiescing in the Opinion of Caldonius, to Wit, that Peace Should Not Be Refused to Such Lapsed As …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 114

Canon I.

… 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 …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 175

Epistle VIII. [2197]

… Argument.--Cyprian, Commending the African Martyrs Marvellously for Their Constancy, Urges Them to Perseverance by the Example of Their Colleague Mappalicus. Cyprian to the martyrs and confessors in Christ our Lord and in God the …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 245

Epistle V.

… To Cyprian, Deacon. Gregory to Cyprian, deacon and rector of the patrimony of Sicily. Concerning the Manicheans who are on our possessions I have frequently admonished thy Love to press them with the utmost diligence …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 201

Chapter LI.

… I myself have seen a certain Paul an old man of Concordia, a town of Italy, who, while he himself was a very young man had been secretary to the blessed Cyprian who was already …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 219

Epistle LVII. [2623]

… Argument.--Cyprian, with His Colleagues, Congratulates Lucius on His Return from Exile, Reminding Him that Martyrdom Deferred Does Not Make the Glory Less. Then, Pointing Out that the Martyrdom of Cornelius and the Banishment of …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 150

Chapter VII.--That the Holy Spirit Brings Us to God.

… 14, that "Cyprian, in the third century, attested the use of the form, Lift up your hearts,' and its response, in the liturgy of Africa (Cyprian, De Orat. Dom. p. 152, Opera, ed. Fell). Augustin …

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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 473

Chapter 43.--Further Development of the Foregoing Argument.

… This, beyond a doubt, is in contradiction to the apostle when he says, "For what hast thou that thou hast not received?" [3667] It is in contradiction also to the saying of the martyr Cyprian

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 73

Canon XXIII.

… According to Cornelius and Cyprian subdeacons were mentioned in the thirtieth canon of the Synod of Elvira (about 305), so that the sub diaconate must then have been acknowledged as a fixed general institution in …

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The Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 20

Chapter I.--The Salutation.

… 509-523. [291] Against this class Cyprian stoutly contended. Comp. Cyprian, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. v. pp. 357, 358, 587-592. Two Epistles Concerning Virginity. ------------------------ The First Epistle of the Blessed Clement, the Disciple of …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 226

Epistle LXIV. [2722]

… Argument.--Cyprian Warns the Bishop Rogatianus to Restrain the Pride of the Deacon Who Had Provoked Him with His Insults, and to Compel Him to Repent of His Boldness; Taking Occasion to Repeat Once More …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 176

Epistle IX. [2208]

… 693.] [2216] [Note this persuasion of Cyprian, and compare St. Matt. xxi. 15, 16; Luke xix. 40.] [2217] [Celebrating the Lord's Supper; Rom. xv. 16 (Greek) compared with Mal. i. 11, texts which seem …

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