Bollandistarum animadversiones in haec concilii Carthaginensis verba: Neque enim quisquam nostrum episcopum se esse episcoporum constituit

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τῶν ἐν τῇ συνόδῳ ταύτῃ συνελθόντων Πατέρων τῷ μεγάλῳ Κυπριανῷ· ἀλλ' οὔτε ἐπὶ τοῖς αἱρετικοῖς ἐκράτησαν πᾶσιν, οὔτε ἐπὶ τοῖς σχισματικοῖς. Ἡ γὰρ δευτέρα οἰκουμενικὴ σύνοδος, Augustini plenarium illud, ut videtur, totius orbis concilium,) ὡς ἤδη εἴρηται, ὑπεξεῖλέ τινας τῶν αἱρετικῶν, καὶ ἄνευ βαπτίσματος δέχεσθαι τούτους θεσπίσασα, χριομένους μόνον τῷ θείῳ μύρῳ, καὶ ἀναθεματίζοντας τὴν οἰκείαν αἵρεσιν ἕκαστον, καὶ πάσας ἁπλῶς. Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο οὐδὲ ἐξηγήθησαν αἱ γνῶμαι αὗται, ὡς μὴ ἀναγκαῖαι, οἷα μηδὲν ἐνεργοῦσαι, ἀλλὰ κατὰ σύνεψιν ἐγράφησαν.

... of the Fathers who came together in this synod with the great Cyprian; but they did not prevail either over all heretics or over schismatics. For the second ecumenical synod (Augustine's "plenary council of the whole world", as it seems), as has already been said, excepted certain of the heretics, decreeing that these be received without baptism, anointed only with the divine chrism and each anathematizing his own heresy, and all heresies without exception. And for this reason these opinions were not even expounded, as not being necessary, inasmuch as they have no force; they were written down only by way of connexion [κατὰ σύνεψιν, as printed].

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Ἡ ἐν Καρχηδόνι γενομένη σύνοδος. Hanc præsentis synodi inscriptionem ms. Bodleiano acceptam ferimus; sed eadem etiam in codice Amerbachiano legitur. In Parisiensi autem tam Balsamonis quam Zonaræ editione, sic inscribitur, Σύνοδος ἡ γενομένη ἐπὶ Κυπριανοῦ τοῦ ἁγιωτάτου ἐπισκόπου Καρχηδόνος καὶ μάρτυρος Synodus habita sub Cypriano sanctissimo Carthaginis episcopo et martyre Celebrata fuit hæc synodus anno Dom. 258, ac proinde omnium synodorum antiquissima a Balsamone et Zonara recte perhibetur: dummodo eæ solæ intelligantur synodi, quæ hoc opere, ut a Græcis receptæ, vel potius in nomocanonem eorum relatæ, continentur. Aliter enim, præter apostolicam, multas alias ante hanc habitas fuisse episcoporum synodos, ex plurimis Tertulliani et Cypriani locis constat. Canon autem, qui huic synodo ascribitur, nihil aliud est quam epistola D. Cypriani et aliorum episcoporum una cum eo synodice convenientium ad Januarium (non Jovianum, ut Balsamon et Zonaras opinati sunt) aliosque Numidiæ episcopos rescripta, quæ in nonnullis Operum divi Cypriani editionibus est epistola 70, in aliis l. I. ep 12. Decernitur autem hoc canone, vel epistola potius, baptismum extra Ecclesiam catholicam conferri non posse, ac propterea denuo baptizandos esse, quicunque ab hæreticis baptizati sunt, cum ad Ecclesiam catholicam conversi fuerint. Idem autem constituitur ab apost. c. 47, in quem videsis quæ annotavimus; hic insuper observamus, ipsa synodi Acta, quibus omnia episcoporum in ea congregatorum testimonia deponuntur, quæque hic post scholia in canonem exstant, in omnibus Balsamonis codicibus desiderari idque juxta ipsius sententiam, ut ex scholiis ejus in canonem colligere est. Sed in omnibus e contra Zonaræ codicibus, tam mss. quam impressis, habentur. Exstant etiam in divi Cypriani operibus necnon in primo conciliorum tomo. De hac autem synodo non opus est ut plura addamus; sed nihilominus priusquam ad proximam nos conferamus hic interim præterea notandum est, in vulgatis (continues)

"The synod held at Carthage." We take this title of the present synod from the Bodleian manuscript; but the same is also read in the Amerbach codex. In the Paris edition, however, of both Balsamon and Zonaras, it is titled thus: "The synod held under Cyprian, the most holy bishop of Carthage and martyr" (Synodus habita sub Cypriano sanctissimo Carthaginis episcopo et martyre). This synod was held in the year of the Lord 258, and is therefore rightly called by Balsamon and Zonaras the most ancient of all the synods, provided that only those synods are understood which are contained in this work as received by the Greeks, or rather as entered in their Nomocanon. For otherwise it is plain from very many passages of Tertullian and Cyprian that, besides the apostolic one, many other synods of bishops were held before this one. The canon ascribed to this synod, moreover, is nothing other than the letter written in reply by blessed Cyprian and the other bishops meeting in synod with him to Januarius (not Jovian, as Balsamon and Zonaras supposed) and other bishops of Numidia, which in some editions of the Works of the divine Cyprian is Letter 70, in others Book I, Letter 12. By this canon, or rather letter, it is decreed that baptism cannot be conferred outside the Catholic Church, and that therefore all who were baptized by heretics must be baptized anew when they have turned to the Catholic Church. The same is laid down by Apostolic Canon 47, on which see what we have noted; here we further observe that the very Acts of the synod, in which are set down all the testimonies of the bishops gathered at it, and which stand here after the scholia on the canon, are wanting in all the codices of Balsamon, and that in accordance with his own opinion, as may be gathered from his scholia on the canon. But in all the codices of Zonaras, on the contrary, manuscript as well as printed, they are present. They also stand in the works of the divine Cyprian and in the first volume of the Councils. Of this synod there is no need for us to add more; but nevertheless, before we pass on to the next, it must meanwhile be noted here besides that in the common [editions] … (continues)

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