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THE REPLY OF NEMESIANUS, DATIVUS, FELIX, AND VICTOR, TO CYPRIAN.ARGUΜΕΝΤ.-This epistia and the two following ones contain nothing elae than repties to the foregoing, incismueh asthey contain the than Uining as weli for the eo ore eon-neyed by the letter as for the assistance sent theretnith. But from the Det that three distinet letters are seret inreply to the single one of Cyprian's, we are to gather thae the bishops who wrote them were plaeed in disserent depart-ments of the mines. And this is eo med in Epistis
lxxiX., where mention is mari os me mine in particular.
1. Nemesianus, Dativus, Felix, and Victor, to their brothor Cyprian, in the Lord eternat salvation. You speah, dearlybeloved Cyprian, in your letters alWays With deep me innas suila the condition of the time, by the assiduous readingos whicli letters both the wichod ars corrected and men os in satili are confirmed. For While you do not cerae in your Writings to lay bare the hidden mysteries, you thus mahe us to grow in faith, and men from the worid to drawnear to belles. For by Whatever good things you have introduced in your many books, unconsciousty you have describedyourseis to us. For you are greater than ali men in dis- eourae, in speech more eloquent, in counset Wiser, in patiencemore simple, in Works more abundant, in abstinence more holy, in obedience more humble, and in good deeti more innocent. Αnd yοu yourself kno , belOVed, that our eager Wish Was, that We might see you, our teacher and our love attain to the crown os a great confession. 2. For as a good and true teacher, that Whicli me your
discipies, fosso ing you, ought to say beiore the president,
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OVer, your continued gitis, and those of our beloved Quirinus, which you sent in be distributod is Herennianus the in deacon, and Lucian, and Maximus, and Amantius the ac ines, provided a supply oi Whatever had Men manting fortho necessities of their dies. Let us, then, be in Our prayers helpers of one another; and let us ash, as you have bidden us, that we may have God and Christ and tho angelsas supporters in ali our actions. Wo bid you, lota and
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ono Spirit in the Mnd of psace might have the grace of your
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324 THE EPISTLES OF C RIAM me ure Which you shali receive from the Lord in tho day os retribution, Who have by your letter presented yourseis to
THE ANS R OF FELIX, J ER, POLI US, AND THEREST OF THE MARTYRS, TO CYPRIAN.ARGUMENT.- The martyra above aposten os aeHowledge inita gratitude the assistanee sent to them is Cyprian. To our dearest and best beloved Cyprian, Felix, Jader, Polianus, together missi the presbyters and est Who are abi&
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THE EPISTLES OF CYPRIAM 325ing With us at the mine of Sigua, eternat health in tho Lord. We reply to your salutation, dearest brother, by
Herennianus tho su deacon, Lucian and Maximus our
whom We have received a sum under the name of an offering,
CYPRIAN TO SERGIUS, ROGATIANUS, AND THE OTHER CONFESSORS IN PRISOΝ. ARGUMENT.-m consoles Rogatianus and his colleagues, theconfessors in Prison, and sives them courage by the Gample of the martyrs Rogatianus the elder and Felia eissimus. The letter sesel indieates that it was rerittenin erile.
1. Cyprian to Sergius and Rogatianus, and the rest of the confessors in the Lord, evertasting health. I salute yοu, dearest and most biessed brothren, myself also destring to enjytho sight of you, is the state in Which I am placed would pe mit me to come to Fou. For What could happen to me more destrabie and more joyses than to be noW close is you, thalyou might embrace me mitti those hands, Which, pure and
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spealis of the tortures which consecrate Gols martyre, and
iried them, and received them as a sacrifice of a bum,
offering, and in due timo regard shali bo had unto them. The righteous stiali shine, and shali run in and fro liuo
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righimus men, and propheth and apostles Who mere Sent.
bo ravealed in M.' ' of Which bri iness, When me considerthe forn it belloves us to bear ali amictions and persecutions; cause, although many are the amictions of the righteous, yet those are delivered hom them Hl Who trusi in God. 3. Blessed momen also, Who are est lished Min you in the fame glory oi confession, Who, maintaining the Loraesfaith, and braver than their sex, not only themselves are nearis the crown of glo , but have inorded an example in other
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age alio might bo With you in honour, the divine condescension has also associared with you boys in a glorious confession; representing to us something of the samo hind as oneo did antas, Marias, and Misael, the illustrious youtha in Whom, When shut up in the furnace, the fires gave Way, and the flames gave refreshment, the Lord being present With them, and proving that against His consessors and martyre the heatos heli could have no poWer, but that they Who trusted in Goda vid alWays continuo unituri and sale in ali dangeria AndI beg you to consider more caresully, in accordance Withyour religion, What must have been the faith in these youthswhich could deserve such fuit achnowledment hom the Lota. For, prepared sor every fate, as me ought ali to be, they say to the hinn o hing Nebuchadnegetar, me are notcaretes to answer thee in this matter; for our God whom me serve is able to deliver from the burning sery furnace;
nor claim it for themselves, saying, But is not.' Lest tho virtve of their confession should be tres Mithout tho testimony
glorious old man who, to the glory of our time, mahes a Waysor you is his religious co age and divine condescension, Who, With Felicissimus our brother, ever quiet and temperate,
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THE EPISTLES OF CYPRIAM 329 receiving the attach of a semctous people, first prepared soryou a d elling in the prison, anil, marhing out the wayy sor
TO SUCCESSUS OΝ TΗΕ TIDINGS BROUGHT FROM ROME, TELLINI OF THE PERSECUTION. ARGUMENΤ.- Cyprian telis the bisho73 Sueeessus, that in asevere persecution that had been decreed by the Eniperor Valerian Gubtissa Uith Gallienus , Matus the pontis had sinered at Rome on the eighth of the Idea of August; and he begs him to intimate the fame to the rest of hiseolimgues, that eaeli one might animate his own Mel tomartyrom. And as Cypriau si ered flortly oster, iuthe month of September, there is no Gubi but that this letter Uas writim near the elose of his life.1. Cyprian to his brother Successus, meeting. The reason why I could not write to you immediately, dearest brother, was that ali the clerra, being placed in the very heat os the contest, Were unable in any Way to depart lience, ali of thembeing prepared in accordance With tho devotion of thoir mindior divine and heavenly glo . But know that those have como whom I had sent to the City for this purpose, that theymight find out and bring bach to us the truth, in Whatevermannor it had been decreed respecting us. For many Various
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the truth concerning them is as sollows, stat Valerian hadsent a rescript to the Senate, to tho offect stat bishops and presbyters and deacons should immediately be punished; butthat' senator' and men os importance, and Roman kniora, inould lose inela dignity, and moreover bo deprived of their properW; and is, When thela means mere inhen a V, in
os their proper , and sent into banishment. Moreove peopte os Caesar's household, wh ver of them had either consessed besore, or should noW confess, should have their property confiscaled, and should be sent in chians is assign-ment to Caesar's estates. Tho Emporor Valerian also addedio this address a copy of the letters which he sent to the presidenis of the provinces concerning us; Which letters meare datly hoping Will come, Walting according to the strengthoi our faith for tho endurance of suffering, and expectingsrom the help and mercy of the Lord the crown of eternallila. But know that xistus was martyred in the cemeteryon the eighth day of the Ιdes of August, and with him laurdeacons. mreover, the presecta in the esty are datly urgingon this peraecution; so that, is any ars presented in them, they are martyred, and their property claimed by the treas y 2. I beg that theso things may be made known by Durmeans to the rest of our colleagues, that everyWhere, by their exhortation, the brotherhood may be strengthened and prepared for the spiritual conflici, that every one of us maythinh less of death than os immortality; and, dedicated totho Lord, with suli faith and entire couram, may rejoicerather than fear in this confession, wheroin they know that the soldiora os God and Christ are not alain, but cromed.