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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 305

Epistle XVII.

… My most beloved son, Cyprian the deacon, had pleased me much by his return to me, if his whole self had returned to me. But now that your Glory has stayed in Sicily, I know …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 331

Chap. VIII.

… Let every man, however, believe anything which commends itself to his own judgment, even though it run counter to some opinion of Cyprian, who may not have seen in the matter what should have been …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 89

Letter LXX. To Magnus an Orator of Rome.

… Then there is Cyprian. [2196] With what terseness, with what knowledge of all history, with what splendid rhetoric and argument has he touched the theme that idols are no Gods! Hilary [2197] too, a confessor …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 235

Epistle LXXII. [2847]

… Argument.--Cyprian Refutes a Letter Enclosed to Him by Jubaianus, and with the Greatest Care Collects Whatever He Thinks Will Avail for the Defence of His Cause. Moreover, He Sends Jubaianus a Copy of the …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 157

Chapter IV.

… So somewhat similarly Cyprian (on the Lord's Prayer) speaks of the third, sixth, and ninth hours being observed as a sacrament of the Trinity. [736] Ps. cxviii. (cxix.) 164. [737] This second "Mattins" of …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 227

Epistle LXV. [2735]

… Example of the Levitical Tribe, that Clerics Ought Not to Mix Themselves Up in Secular Cares. 1. Cyprian to the presbyters, and deacons, and people abiding at Furni, greeting. I and my colleagues who were …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 167

Letter CXLVIII. To the Matron Celantia.

… During the persecutions of Decius and Valerian, [4014] when Cornelius at Rome and Cyprian at Carthage shed their blood in blessed martyrdom, many churches in Egypt and the Thebaid were laid waste by the fury …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 238

Epistle LXXIII. [2887]

… He Says There: "Cyprian, Moreover, Writes to Pompey on the Same Subject, When He Plainly Signifies that Stephen, Who, as We Learn, Was Then a Bishop of the Roman Church, Not Only Did Not Agree …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 206

Epistle LI. [2450]

… Argument.--When Antonianus, Having Received Letters from Novatian, Had Begun to Be Disposed in His Mind Towards His Party, Cyprian Confirms Him in His Former Opinion, Namely, that of Continuing to Hold Communion with His …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 229

Epistle LXVII. [2751]

… Argument.--Basilides and Martial, Bishops, Having Lapsed and Become Contaminated by the Certificates of Idolatry, Cyprian with His Fellow-Bishops Praises the Clergy and People of Spain that They Had Substituted in Their Place by …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 161

[3949] Jer. iv. 3.

… The plea urged on behalf of the schism was that Cornelius, who was of one accord with Cyprian, had lapsed in the time of the persecution under Decius, a.d. 250, and that he had …

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Augustine — Anti-Pelagian Writings • SECTION 440

Chapter 15.--It is Believers that are Taught of God.

… the Church pray, according to the Lord's commandment, for her persecutors? For thus also the blessed Cyprian [3476] would have it to be understood that we say, "Thy will be done, as in heaven …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 47

Epistle VI.--To Sixtus, Bishop. [840]

… I have seen Cyprian's portrait representing him as a Moor.] [846] Deut. xix. 14.

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 6

Chapter IV.

… Medic., which puts tithemenos for tithemenon. [See Cyprian, vol. v. p. 493, note 7, this series.] [61] protropaden. [62] chrematisasthai. [63] koinonian hama biou esteilanto. [64] anaktesomenou. [65] The text is, kai nuktor semnoteti semnunesthai …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 244

Chap. III.

… However, if you inquire or recall to memory the opinion of our Ambrose, [2056] and also of our Cyprian, [2057] on the point in question, you will perhaps find that I also have not been …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 269

[3339] John vi. 38.

… Psalter.] [3364] [Cyprian was very mild in his position against the accusations of Stephen. Sec. 26, p. 386, supra; also Treatise ix., infra.] [3365] Or, "will judge." [3366] 1 John iii. 15. [3367] 2 Kings …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 180

Epistle XIV. [2240]

… People; Nay, He Makes Use of the Same Words Which He Had Employed in Them. [2241] 1. Cyprian to his brethren the presbyters and deacons assembled at Rome, greeting. Having ascertained, beloved brethren, that what …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 268

Letter XCVIII.

… In this sense also may be rightly understood the words which most blessed Cyprian wrote in his letter concerning the lapsed, when, rebuking those who in the time of persecution had sacrificed to idols, he …

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Augustine — City of God & Christian Doctrine • SECTION 411

Book IV.

… and of each of these he gives examples, selected both from scripture and from early teachers of the church, Cyprian and Ambrose. He shows that these various styles may be mingled, and when and for …

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