8 [To live by faith = to be just, through Christ the object of faith. The Fathers always accept "justification by faith." See Faber's Primitive Doctrine of Justificatioin; and compare Bull, Harmonia Apostolica.]
10 Baluzius interpolates here, without authority, "true."
16 [The Christian is not exempted from the common lot of humanity; but all men, if they would live godly, would escape many evils (1 Tim. vi. 6), even in the light of 2 Tim. iii. 12.]
17 A few codices read, for "the Spirit," " Christ."
20 Job i. 21. [" The Christian's sorrow," says Bishop Home, "is better than the world's joy." John xvi. 33.]
29 According to some, "the ship's helmsman." [Vol. i. 94.]
30 Some read, "of virtue." [In the Ignatian manner. Compare vol. i. p. 45.]
33 Some read, "rather it behoves us to rejoice."
38 Some originals read, "does not desire our blood, but asks for our faith."
39 [Sciamus non eos amitti sed praemitti. Current even in our day.]
40 [The clouds of black which are still customary in affliction are not according to the faith, in Cyprian's idea. Leighton, St. Peter, ii. 24.]
51 [A prelude to the Te Deum, and very possibly from a Western hymn: -Apostolorum gloriosus chorus; Prophetarum exultantium numerus; Martyrum innumerabilis populus.]
1 [Numbered x. in Oxford ed., assigned to A. D. 254.]
2 A slight and scarcely noticeable difference occurs here in the Oxford text, which reads the passage, "that the Son was sent, and willed to be called the Son of man."
3 Portaverat; "had brought" (Oxf. transl.).
4 "Poisons of the old serpent."
5 [The beauty of Cyprian's exordiums and perorations proves that he was a true orator. "Great and manifold," etc., Translators of King James.]
6 Prov. xvi. 6. [" By mercy and truth," etc., Eng. Version ]
10 1 John i. 8, 9. Oxford editors add: "If we confess our sin.i, the Lord is faithful and just to forgive us our sins." [They remind us that this passage is expounded in the Anglican Book of Homilies, Hom. xi. part ii. p. 347, ed. Philadelphia, 1844.]
16 Some editors read "parcens " instead of "patiens," making the meaning "sparing to thy sins."