Cyprian correspondence, Epistle VIII — Letter 8

1

Oxford ed.; Ep. x. a.d. 250.

2

1 John iv. 4.

3

[There is in the church of S. Stefano Rotondo at Rome a series of delineations of the sufferings of the early martyrs, poorly executed, and too horrible to contemplate; but it all answers to these words of our author. See Ep. xxxiv. infra.]

4

Ps. cxvi. 15.

5

Matt. x. 19, 20.

6

Isa. vii. 13; vide Lam. iii. 26.

7

Isa. vii. 14.

8

1 Cor. ix. 24, 25.

9

2 Tim. iv. 6–8.

10

[He contemplates the peace promised in Ep. viii. supra. But note the indomitable spirit with which, for successive ages, the Church supplied her martyrs. Heb. xi. 36, 37.]

11

Rev. ii. 23.

Letter 8

To the Martyrs and Confessors.

Argument.—Cyprian, Commending the African Martyrs Marvellously for Their Constancy, Urges Them to Perseverance by the Example of Their Colleague Mappalicus.

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