{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/005/footnote/fn48.htm","path":"chr/ecf/005/footnote/fn48.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/005/footnote/fn48.htm","text":"1 Oxford ed.: Ep. xiv. A.D. 250.\n2 It is thought that Cyprian here speaks of an order of men called \"Parabolani,\" who systematically devoted themselves to the service of the sick and poor and imprisoned. [Acts iv. 6 , oi newteroi.]\n3 Ecclus. xi. 28. [Conf. Solon, Herod., i. 86.]\n6 John xiii. 14, 15. [The parabolaniwere so called circaA.D. 415.]\n9 [Strange, indeed, that such should be found amid the persecuted sheep of Christ; but it illustrates the history of Callistus at Rome, and the possibility of such characters enlisting in the Churcb.]\n10 [\" Whence hath it tares?\" Ans.: \"An enemy hath done this.\" See Matt. xiii. 27; Acts xx. 29-31.]\n11 [Elucidation 11. This was the canonical duty neglected by Callistus and his predecessor, who \"imagined,\" etc. See p. 156, supra.]\n1 Oxford ed.: Ep. xiii. [Rogatian was a bishop afterwards.]\n2 A beautiful aphorism. See below, note 8, this page.]\n9 [The shameof the Church is the shameof the bishop. See above, note I; also 1 Tim. v. 22.]\n10 Either as criminals having returned from banishment without authority, or as having committed some crime for which they became amenable to punishment. See 1 Pet. iv. 15: \"But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer.\"\n11 Rom. xi. 20, 21. [How significant this warning to Rome!]\n16 \" Illustrata.\" The Oxford translation has \"bathed in light.\"\n17 [That is, i( they have night actually committed the great sin themselves, yet, etc. See vol. ii. p. 57.]\n20 Gal. v. 15. [See note 9, infra.]\n21 The following is found only in one ms.. Its genuineness is there fore doubted by some: \"And although I have most fully written to our clergy, both lately when you were still kept in prison, and now also a sin, to supply whatever was needful, either for your clothing or for your food, yet I myself have also sent you from the small meanof my own which I had with me, 250 pieces: and another,o I had also sent before. Victor also, who from a reader has become a dea-, con, and is with me, sent you 175. But I rejoice when I know that very many of our brethren of their love are striving with each other, and are aiding your necessities with their contributions.\"\n1 Oxford ed.; Ep. xi. A.D. 250.\n2 [Compare, in former letters, similar complaints, to which brie[ notes are subjoined. And mark the honest simplicity o( these confessions. 2 Peter ii. 13, 14, 15.]\n8 [A comment on Luke xviii. 3, compared with Matt. xviii. 19. Importunity necessary, even in the latter case.]\n9 Ps. lxviii. 6. [Vulgate and Anglican Psaker version.]\n13 [After the manner of Hermas. Vol. ii. p.24, note 2.]\n19 [A vision granted to the pastor in behalf of his flock. See Vulgate version of Ps. lxxxix. 19, which Cyprian's, doubtless, antics-p ated.] This prediction of settled timeswas published in unsettled ones; and it was fulfilled by the sudden and unexpected death of Decius, in his expedition against the Goths.","title":"chr/ecf/005/footnote/fn48.htm","type":"page"}