56 Matt. xiii. 23; Luke viii. 15.
61 Eph. v. 27; Retract. ii. 18.
70 Phil. i. 18; see on ch. 7. 10.
72 Cypr. Ep. lxxiii. 15; 2 Tim. ii. 17.
75 Antonianus, a bishop of Numidia, wrote 252 A.D., to Cyprian, favoring his milder view in opposition to the purism of Novatian: subsequently Novatian wrote to him, advocating the purist movement and impugning the laxity of Cornelius, bp. of Rome. To overthrow the effect upon A. of this letter, Cyprian wrote Epistle LV. In Ep LXX., A. is of the number of those Numidian bishops whom Cyprian addresses.
81 Cypr. Ep. lxxiii. 15; 2 Cor. vi. 14.
93 Ecclus. xxx. 23. The words, "placentes Deo" are derived from the Latin version only.
95 From a letter of Pope Stephen's, quoted Cypr. Ep. lxxiii. 16.
107 Various Synods from 345 on anathematized Photinus, the bishop of Sirmium. The two of Sirmium, 351 and 357, accused him of constituting two Gods.
122 Another reading, of less authority, is, "Aut catechumeno sacramentum baptismi praeferendum putamus." This does not suit the sense of the passage, and probably sprung from want of knowledge of the meaning of the "catechumen's sacrament." It is mentioned in the Council of Carthage, A.D. 397, as "the sacrament of salt" (cap. 5). Augustin (de Peccat. Meritis, ii. c. 26), says that "what the catechumens receive, though it be not the body of Christ, yet is holy, more holy than the food whereby our bodies are sustained, because it is a sacrament."-Cp. de Catech. Rudibus, c. 26 [Bened.]. It appears to have been only a taste of salt, given them as the emblem of purity and incorruption. See Bingham, Orig. Eccles. Book x. c. ii. 16.