Cyprian correspondence, Epistle LXV — Letter 65

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Oxford ed.: Ep. i. a.d. 249.

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The Oxford translator notes here that the Roman law did not permit this office be declined.

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2 Tim. ii. 4. [Are not these primitive ideas a needed admonition to our times?]

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“Pro dormitione ejus.” Goldhorn observes here, rather needlessly, that it was unlucky among the ancient Christians to speak of death. [They counted death as a falling asleep, and the grave as a cœmeterium; and this prayer for the repose of the righteous was strictly such, that they might “rest from their labours,” till, in the resurrection and not before, they should receive their consummation and reward.]

Letter 65

To the Clergy and People Abiding at Furni, About Victor, Who Had Made the Presbyter Faustinus a Guardian.

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