TABLE OF THE EPISTLES OF S. CYPRIAN, ACCORDING TO THE EDITIONS OF MANUTIUS, PAMELIUS, THE BENEDICTINES, AND OXFORD. INDEX OF THE EPISTLES OF S. CYPRIAN, IN THE ALPHABETIC ORDER OF NAMES. Antonian, 55. Caldonius to Cyprian, 24. 42. Caldonius, 25. with others, 41. Celerinus to Lucian, 21. Carthage, Clergy at, 5. 7. 11. 12. 14. 16. 18. 19. 26. 29. 32. 34. Clergy and people at, 38. 39. 40. 81. Martyrs and Confessors at, 10. 15. Confessors to Cyprian, 23. Cornelius, 44. 45. 47. 48. 51. 52. 59. 60. (African Synod to) Cornelius, 57. Cornelius to Cyprian, 49. 50. Epictetus and people of Assure, 65. Euchratius, 2. Felix and others to Cyprian, 79. Fidus, 64. Firmilian to St. C. 75. Florentius Pupianus, 66. Fortunatus and others, 56. Furni Clergy and people at, 1. Januarius and Numidian Bishops, 62. 70. Jubaianus, 73. Lapsed, the, 33. Lucian to Celerinus, 22. Lucius, Bp. of Rome, 61. Lucius, Rp. and other Confessors to St. C. 78. Maximus and others, 46. 54. to St. C. 53. EPISTLES OF ST. CYPRIAN. EPISTLE I.a Cyprian to the Presbyters, and Deacons, and Laity assembled at Furni, greeting. 1. We were greatly concerned, dearest brethren, I and my colleagues who were with me, and our fellow-presbyters who sat with us, at hearing that Geminius Victor our brother had, when leaving this world, by his last will appointed Geminius Faustinus, a presbyter, to be his executor: whereas it was long since decreed in a council of Bishops, that no one should by his will appoint one of the Clergy and ministers of God to be executor or guardian, since every one honoured with the holy priesthood and ordained to the clerical office, ought only to serve at the altar and sacrifices, and give himself wholly to prayers and supplications. For it is written, No man that warreth for God, entangleth 2 Tim. himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please Him 2, Who hath chosen him to be a soldier. Since this is said a Pamelius assigned to this Epistle a later date, supposing the Geminius complained of to be the Geminius a Furnis, who was Bishop in the Council of Carthage, (see below.) Bp. Fell notes that he was probably not a Bishop, both on account of the act spoken of, and because S. Cyprian calls him "brother" not " colleague," that it is as likely that the other Geminius, here named, became a Bishop, that it was unlikely that in the Decian persecution a Presbyter should be named executor. He places it in the times of relaxed discipline before the persecution. (see de Laps. §. 4.) b Consistentes. Bp. Fell regards the word as equivalent to stantes "abiding in the faith." This sense, however, it B cannot have in other places, where (as 4. |