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S. Cyprianus, Epistola ad S. Lucium papam ab exsilio reversum

Editors' preface

EPISTOLA UNICA

THE ONLY LETTER

S. CYPRIANI CARTHAGINIENSIS EPISCOPI AD LUCIUM PAPAM DE EXSILIO REVERSUM.

OF ST CYPRIAN, BISHOP OF CARTHAGE, TO POPE LUCIUS, RETURNED FROM EXILE.

De reditu illius ab exsilio gratulatur. Nil imminutum gloriae ejus, etiamsi martyrio vitam non finierit. Non sine Dei consilio factum, ut ipsum, decessorem, et Ecclesiam ejus exagitarit persecutio, ac Novatianos non attigerit. Laetitiam Ecclesiae Romanae in adventu ejus graphice repraesentat.

He congratulates him on his return from exile. Nothing has been taken from his glory, even if he did not end his life by martyrdom. It was not without the counsel of God that the persecution harassed him, his predecessor and his Church, and did not touch the Novatians. He depicts vividly the joy of the Roman Church at his coming.

Cyprianus cum collegis Lucio fratri salutem.

Cyprian with his colleagues to Lucius his brother, greeting.

I. Et nuprr quidem tibi, frater charissime, gratulati sumus, cum te honore gemiuato in Ecclesiae suae administratione confessorem pariter et sacerdotem constituit divina dignatio: sed et nunc non minus tibi et comitibus tuis atque universae fraternitati gratulamur, quod cum eadem gloria et laudibus vestris reduces vos denuo ad suos fecerit benigna Domini et larga protectio, ut pascendo gregi pastor, et gubernandae navi gubernator, et plebi regendae rector redderetur; et appareret relegationem vestram sic divinitus esse dispositam, non ut episcopus relegatus et pulsus Ecclesiae deesset, sed ut ad Ecclesiam major rediret.

I. Not long ago indeed, dearest brother, we congratulated you, when the divine condescension appointed you, with a twofold honour in the administration of His Church, confessor and priest alike; but now also we congratulate no less you and your companions and the whole brotherhood, because the kind and generous protection of the Lord has brought you back again to your own with the same glory and with your praises, so that the shepherd should be restored for feeding the flock, and the pilot for steering the ship, and the ruler for governing the people; and that it should appear that your banishment was so divinely ordered, not that the bishop, banished and driven out, should be lacking to the Church, but that he should return to the Church greater.

II. Neque enim in tribus pueris minor fuit martyrii dignitas (Dan. III), quia morte frustrata de camino ignis incolumes exierunt: aut non consummatus Daniel exstitit in suis laudibus, quia qui leonibus missus fuerat ad praedam, protectus a Domino, vixit ad gloriam (Dan. VI). In confessoribus Christi dilata martyria non meritum confessionis minuunt,

II. For neither was the dignity of martyrdom less in the three youths (Dan. 3) because, death being thwarted, they came out unharmed from the furnace of fire; nor did Daniel stand short of fulfilment in his praises because he who had been sent to the lions as prey, protected by the Lord, lived on to glory (Dan. 6). In the confessors of Christ martyrdoms deferred do not lessen the merit of confession,

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Vos denuo fecit Voss. 2.

"Vos denuo fecit" (has made you again): Vossius 2.

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Gloriam. Confessoribus Christi Lam. Ebor. NC. 1,

"Gloriam. Confessoribus Christi" (to glory. In the confessors of Christ): Lambeth, York, New College 1.

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Prompti omnes Bod. 2.

"Prompti omnes" (all ready): Bodleian 2.

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Lucius papa Cornelio successit anno Christi 255, et mox pulsus est in exsilium; sed brevi postea rediit in Urbem, anno nimirum sequente. Tum sanctus Cyprianus tam suo quam collegarum suorum nomine hanc ad eum epistolam dedit, in ea faciens mentionem alterius epistolae quam ad illum scripserat in initiis suscepti ab eo episcopatus. Istud patet esse extra difficultatem. Et tamen Joannes Launoius sibi persuasit ex ipsis epistolae istius verbis colligi non posse alias antea litteras datas esse ad Lucium quia, ut ille ait: Cyprianus se quidem gratulatum fuissse ait, sed gratulatum se per litteras non ait. Quod argumentum est sane levissimum, ut ante me censuit auctor Annalium Cyprianicorum. Porro Lucius martyrio coronatus sepultus est in coemeterio Callisti, via Appia. BALUZ.

Pope Lucius succeeded Cornelius in the year of Christ 255, and was soon driven into exile; but a little later he returned to the City, namely in the following year. Then Saint Cyprian, in his own name as well as his colleagues', sent him this letter, mentioning in it another letter which he had written to him at the beginning of the episcopate Lucius had taken up. This is plainly beyond difficulty. And yet Jean de Launoy persuaded himself that it cannot be gathered from the very words of this letter that another letter had been sent to Lucius before, because, as he says: Cyprian says that he had congratulated him, but he does not say that he congratulated him by letter. That argument is very slight indeed, as the author of the Annales Cyprianici judged before me. Further, Lucius, crowned with martyrdom, was buried in the cemetery of Callistus on the Appian Way. Baluze.

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Gratulati sumus. Litteris videlicet, quas ad pontificem Romanum, statim ut se episcopum factum nuntiaret, mitti divina traditio et ecclesiastica institutio volebat, ut ipse Cyprianus ep. XLII docet. Hunc merito respuitur Launoii opinio, qua hoc ita intelligi posse censet, ut Cyprianus quidem secum et collegis de gemino Lucii honore gratulatus sit; sed hanc gratulationem minime Lucio per litteras significarit. COUSTANT.

We congratulated. That is, by the letter which divine tradition and the Church's ordinance required to be sent to the Roman pontiff as soon as he announced that he had been made bishop, as Cyprian himself teaches in Letter 42. Hence Launoy's opinion is rightly rejected, by which he thinks this can be understood to mean that Cyprian congratulated himself and his colleagues on Lucius's twofold honour, but did not convey this congratulation to Lucius by letter at all. Coustant.

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Administratione confessorem, Qui Lucium cum Cornellio, prius quam in Romanum pontificem cooptaretur, relegatum fuisse putant, niti videntur hoc loco, quem nimirum sic interpretantur, quasi Lucius jam confessor pridem factus, pontifex postmodum constitutus sit: cum hoc potius dicat Cyprianus, eum simul atque Ecclesiae regimen suscepit, exsilio confessionis laudem meruisse. Quippe Gallus, Cornelii morte nihil profecisse se audiens, si Lucium ejus successorem in Urbe manere sineret, eum statim exsilio multavit. Neque vero haec, reduces vos denuo duplex exsilium aut duplicem reditum, sed pontificis semel suis ablati, qui de integro iisdem redditus sit, simplicem reditum sonant, de quo nunc Cyprianus gratulatur. COUSTANT.

A confessor in [your] administration. Those who think that Lucius was banished with Cornelius before he was chosen Roman pontiff seem to rely on this place, which they interpret as if Lucius, having long since become a confessor, was afterwards made pontiff; whereas Cyprian rather says that as soon as he took up the government of the Church he earned the praise of confession by exile. For Gallus, hearing that he had gained nothing by the death of Cornelius if he let Lucius, his successor, remain in the City, at once punished him with exile. Nor do these words, you, brought back again, signify a double exile or a double return, but the single return of a pontiff once taken from his people and restored to them anew, on which Cyprian now congratulates him. Coustant.

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Divinitus esse dispositam. His concinit illud Bucheriani catalogi: Hic exsul fuit: et postea nutu Dei incolumis ad Ecclesiam reversus est. COUSTANT.

Was divinely ordered. With this agrees the line of Bucher's catalogue: He was an exile, and afterwards by God's will returned safe to the Church. Coustant.

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With Antichrist at hand. Rigault says: persecution. As Tertullian describes it in "Apocal." [as printed; the words are from the Apology], ch. 32, this state of things is called the greatest violence hanging over the whole world, the close of the age, which threatens horrible bitterness. Fell.

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marginal letters: A ‹Cyprianus cum collegis›; B ‹rii dignitas(Dan.III)›; C ‹faciens mentionem (footnotes)›; D ‹sit; sed hanc gratulationem (footnotes)›
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sed magnalia divinae protectionis ostendunt. Repraesentatum videmus in vobis, quod apud regem fortes atque illustres pueri praedicaverunt: ipsos quidem paratos esse ardere flammis, ne diis ejus servirent, aut imaginem quam fecerat adorarent; Deum tamen quem colebant, quemque et nos colimus, potentem esse ut eos de camino illaesos eximeret, et de regis manibus ac de poenis praesentibus liberaret (Dan. III, 16). Quod in invenimus in confessionis vestrae fide, et in Domini circa vos protectione nunc gestum; ut cum vos parati fueritis et prompti omne subire supplicium, Dominus tamen vos poenae subtraheret, et Ecclesiae reservaret. Regredientibus vobis breviata non est in episcopo confessionis suae dignitas, sed magis crevit sacerdotalis auctoritas: ut altari Dei assistat antistes, qui ad confessionis arma sumenda et facienda martyria non verbis plebem, sed factis cohortetur; et imminente Antichristo paret ad praelium milites non solo sermonis et vocis incitamento, sed fidei et virtutis exemplo.

but show forth the mighty works of the divine protection. We see represented in you what the brave and illustrious youths proclaimed before the king: that they themselves were indeed ready to burn in the flames rather than serve his gods or worship the image that he had made; yet that God, Whom they worshipped and Whom we also worship, was mighty to take them out of the furnace unharmed and to deliver them from the hands of the king and from the punishments at hand (Dan. 3:16). This we find wrought now in the faith of your confession and in the Lord's protection over you; so that, though you were ready and prompt to undergo every punishment, the Lord nevertheless withdrew you from punishment and kept you for the Church. In your returning, the dignity of his confession has not been cut short in the bishop, but rather his priestly authority has grown: so that a prelate stands at the altar of God who exhorts the people to take up the arms of confession and to undergo martyrdom not by words but by deeds; and, with Antichrist at hand, prepares soldiers for the battle not by the incitement of speech and voice alone, but by the example of faith and virtue.

III. Intelligimus, frater charissime, et tota cordis

III. We understand, dearest brother, and with the whole light of our heart

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Prompti omnes Bod. 2.

"Prompti omnes" (all ready): Bodleian 2.

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Praelium milites Christi Bod. 2 Ebor. NC. 1.

"Praelium milites Christi" (the soldiers of Christ ... battle): Bodleian 2, York, New College 1.

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Non solo sermonis Bod. 1.

"Non solo sermonis" (not only of speech): Bodleian 1.

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Imminente Antichristo. Rigault says, Persecutione (with persecution at hand). As Tertullian describes it in the Apocal. [Apology], ch. 32, this state of things is called the greatest violence hanging over the whole world, the close of the age, which threatens horrible bitternesses. Fell.

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Solum sermonis. Octo libri veteres habent solo sermonis, alii duo solo sermone, alius solum sermone. BALUZ.

Solum sermonis. Eight old books have solo sermonis, two others solo sermone, another solum sermone. Baluze.

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nostri luce perspicimus divinae majestatis salutaria et sancta consilia; unde illic repentina persecutio nuper exorta sit, unde contra Ecclesiam Christi et episcopum Cornelium beatum martyrem vosque omnes saecularis potestas subito proruperit: ut ad confundendos haereticos et retundendos ostenderet Dominus quae esset Ecclesia, quis episcopus ejus unus divina ordinatione delectus, qui cum episcopo presbyteri. sacerdotali honore conjuncti, quis adunatus et verus Christi populus Dominicis gregis charitate connexus; qui essent quos inimicus lacesseret, qui et contra quibus diabolus ut suis parceret. Neque enim persequitur et impugnat Christi adversarius nisi castra et milites Christi. Haereticos prostratos semel et ipsos suos factos, contemnit et praeterit: eos quaerit dejicere, quos videt stare.

perceive the saving and holy counsels of the divine majesty: why a sudden persecution lately arose there, why the secular power suddenly broke out against the Church of Christ and against the bishop Cornelius, the blessed martyr, and against all of you: so that, for confounding and beating back the heretics, the Lord might show which was the Church, who was its one bishop chosen by divine ordinance, which presbyters were joined with the bishop in priestly honour, which was the united and true people of Christ, bound together in the charity of the Lord's flock; who were those whom the enemy should assail, and who on the other hand those whom the devil should spare as his own. For the adversary of Christ persecutes and attacks none but the camp and soldiers of Christ. Heretics, once laid low and made his own, he despises and passes by: those he seeks to cast down whom he sees standing.

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[… cropped …] printed editions; New College 2.

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"Et ego et" (and I and): Bodleian 2.

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Repentina persecutio. Sub Gallo et Valeriano, ut censet illustrissimus episcopus Oxoniensis. Hi enim ut numinum suorum iram lenirent, et pestem in republica grassantem averterent, cujus uti et aliorum malorum causam rejiciebant in Christianos, persecutionem repente adversus eos moverunt. Contra apud Hieronymum in Epistola ad Pammachium et Marcellam pax repentina: Belli rationem pax repentina commutat. Et apud Petronium repentina tranquillitas. BALLUZ.

A sudden persecution. Under Gallus and Valerian, as the most illustrious bishop of Oxford judges. For these, to soothe the anger of their gods and to avert the plague raging in the commonwealth, the cause of which, as of other evils, they laid upon the Christians, suddenly raised a persecution against them. Conversely, in Jerome's Letter to Pammachius and Marcella, a sudden peace: a sudden peace changes the plan of war. And in Petronius, a sudden calm. Baluze.

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Et episcopum. Particula et ms. Corb. deest, nulla sensus mutatione. COUSTANT.

And the bishop. The particle et is missing in the Corbie manuscript, with no change of sense. Coustant.

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Cum episcopo. Idem ms. et alii sex Anglic. cum episcopis. Rectius caeteri libri, cum episcopo, quem unum in una Ecclesia esse debere Cyprianus proxime docuit, et alibi constanter praedicat COUSTANT.

With the bishop. The same manuscript and six others of the English [edition] have cum episcopis (with the bishops). The other books more rightly read cum episcopo (with the bishop), who, as Cyprian has just taught and elsewhere constantly proclaims, must be one in one Church. Coustant.

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Diabolus ut suis parceret. Decuisset Novatianum et ejus sequaces ad Martyria subeunda fuisse promptissimos, qui ab Ecclesiae communione eo nomine recesserunt, quia illa cum lapsis communicaret, et exinde Orthodoxos appellabant, Paciano teste, Apostaticos Capitolinos, et Synedrios. Dicit quidem Socrates quod Novatianus ἐπὶ Οὐαλεριανοῦ τοῦ βασιλέως διωγμὸν κατὰ Χριστιανῶν κινήσαντος ἐμαρτύρησεν, Hist. lib. IV, c. 28, et libellus circumferebatur cui titulus erat Martyrium Novatiani, quem confutavit Eulogius episcopus Alexandrinus lib. sexto contra Novatianos; cujus excerpta habentur in Photii Bibliotheca. Narratio ista dicit Novatianum Martyrem sive Confessorem fuisse, antequam ad Episcopatum promoveretur; quod quidem apertissime falsum. Certe Pacianus disertissimis verbis ait, quod Novatianus nunquam Martyrium tulit. Addit porro, ideo ab Ecclesia recesserat, ne illum labor confessionis urgeret. Nec puduit illum, teste Cypriano, affirmare ingruente persecutione, quod ad philosophiam redire vellet, potius quam capitis periculum adire. FELL.

That the devil might spare his own. It would have become Novatian and his followers to be most ready to undergo martyrdom, since they withdrew from the communion of the Church on the ground that she communicated with the lapsed, and thereafter called the orthodox, as Pacian testifies, apostates of the Capitol, and Synedrians. Socrates does say that Novatian bore witness [as a martyr] when the emperor Valerian stirred up persecution against the Christians (Hist. book IV, ch. 28), and a little book was circulated entitled The Martyrdom of Novatian, which Eulogius, bishop of Alexandria, refuted in the sixth book against the Novatians; excerpts of it are found in Photius's Bibliotheca. That account says that Novatian was a martyr or confessor before he was raised to the episcopate; which is most plainly false. Certainly Pacian says in the clearest words that Novatian never suffered martyrdom. He adds further, he had withdrawn from the Church for this reason, that the toil of confession might not press upon him. Nor was he ashamed, as Cyprian testifies, to declare when persecution was breaking out that he wished to return to philosophy, rather than face danger to his life. Fell.

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Semel et suos Editio Rigaltii semel et ipsos et suos factos. Nescio autem unde acceperit hanc lectionem. Ego quippe illam nuspiam reperi quam in illius editione. Et tamen vidi omnes libros veteres quibus ille usus est. Itaque delevi et ipsos, putans non debere me ponere in mea editione quod illic et in Anglicana scriptum est absque auctoritate. Nam et ipsimet Angli laudant novem libros veteres in quibus ea desunt quae a me praetermissa sunt. Confirmant meam emendationem haec verba Tertulliani ex libro ad Martyres: Non ergo dicat [diabolus], In mea sunt, tentabo illos vilibus discidiis aut inter se desensionibus. Et in libro de Spectaculis ait diabolum, cum oneraretur in exorcismo quod mulierem fidelem quae adierat theatrum aggredi ausus esset, respondisse: Justissime quidem feci, in meo eam inveni. BALUZ.

Once, and his own. Rigault's edition has once, and both themselves and made his own. I do not know where he got this reading. For I have found it nowhere but in his edition. And yet I have seen all the old books that he used. So I have deleted et ipsos, thinking that I ought not to put in my edition what is written there and in the English edition without authority. For the English themselves cite nine old books in which the words I have omitted are missing. These words of Tertullian from the book To the Martyrs confirm my emendation: Let him [the devil] not say, then, "They are in my domain; I will tempt them with base quarrels or with dissensions among themselves." And in the book On the Shows he says that the devil, when he was pressed in exorcism for having dared to attack a believing woman who had gone to the theatre, answered: I did quite rightly; I found her on my ground. Baluze.

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Et ipsos suos. Edit. Oxon., minus concinne. Horum loco in novem mss. exstat tantum suos, in Corb. et suos. Diabolum in Dei servos saevire, ac sibi addictos minime fatigare solere Cyprianus, supra, Epist. 13, n. 3, ad Cornelium fusius edisserit. COUSTANT.

And themselves his own. The Oxford edition, less neatly. In their place nine manuscripts have only suos, the Corbie manuscript et suos. That the devil is wont to rage against the servants of God and hardly to trouble those given over to him, Cyprian sets out more fully above, Letter 13, no. 3, to Cornelius. Coustant.

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Vix osculis. Error certissimus, qui exstat in omnibus fere libris veteribus et editionibus, oculis dat, cum scribendum osculis. Angli recte emendarunt ex ingenio, non auctoritate. Nullum enim veterem codicem laudant auctorem hujus emendationis. Ego illam nuspiam inseni quam in Metensi sancti Arnulphi, quem tardiuscule accepi. Infra in libro de Lapsis, pag. 181: Sanctis osculis adhaerentes. Miror autem me non animadvertisse bonam lectionem in editione Anglicana. BALUZ.

Hardly with kisses. A most certain error, found in almost all the old books and editions, gives oculis (with eyes), when osculis (with kisses) should be written. The English emended it rightly by conjecture, not by authority, for they cite no old manuscript as warrant for this emendation. I found it nowhere but in the Metz manuscript of Saint Arnulf, which I received rather late. Below, in the book On the Lapsed, p. 181: clinging with holy kisses. I wonder, though, that I did not notice the good reading in the English edition. Baluze.

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De adventus vestri. Lectionem veterem, quam nos revocamus, quam omnes fere libri veteres et editiones confirmant, Pamelius pronuntiavit non esse bonam asserens pravam distinctionem a Rembolto inductam, id est eam lectionem quam nos revocamus, obscurare sensum. At si erratum illic est, culpandus non erat Remboltus. Quippe eadem distinctio exstat editione Spirensi et in veteri Veneta, quae eam antecesserunt quam Remboltus emisit. Caeterum Pamelius ait se ita distinxisse, uti distinxit secundum scripturam duorum veterum librorum quos laudat, sicuti nos eamdem distinctionem reperimus etiam in duobus codicibus manuscriptis. BALUZ.

Of your coming. The old reading, which we restore and which almost all the old books and editions confirm, Pamelius declared not to be good, asserting that a faulty punctuation introduced by Rembolt, that is, the reading we restore, obscures the sense. But if there is an error there, Rembolt was not to blame. For the same punctuation appears in the Speyer edition and in the old Venetian, which preceded the one Rembolt published. Moreover, Pamelius says he punctuated as he did following the text of two old books which he cites, just as we too have found the same punctuation in two manuscripts. Baluze.

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IV. Atque utinam nunc facultas daretur, frater charissime, ut interesse illic vobis regredientibus possemus, qui vos mutuo charitate diligimus, ut adventus vestri laetissimum fructum praesentes cum caeteris ipsi quoque caperemus! Quae illic exsultatio omnium fratrum! qui concursus atque complexus occurentium singulorum! Vix osculis adhaerentium potest satisfieri, vix vultus ipsi atque oculi plebis possunt videndo satiari. De adventus vestri gaudio cognoscere illic fraternitas coepit, qualis et quanta sit secutura Christo veniente laetitia, cujus quia cito appropinquabit adventus. imago jam quaedam praecessit in vobis: ut quomodo Joannes praecursor ejus et praevius veniens praedicavit Christum venisse, sic nunc episcopo confessore Domini et sacerdote redeunte appareat et Dominum jam redire. Vicarias vero pro nobis ego et collegae et fraternitas omnis has ad vos litteras

IV. And would that the opportunity were given us now, dearest brother, to be present there at your return, we who love you mutually in charity, so that we too, being present, might ourselves reap with the rest the most joyful fruit of your coming! What exultation of all the brethren is there! What a running together and embracing of each one coming to meet you! Scarcely can the kisses of those clinging to you be satisfied; scarcely can the very faces and eyes of the people be filled with seeing. From the joy of your coming the brotherhood there has begun to know how great and what manner of gladness will follow when Christ comes; for since His coming will draw near swiftly, a certain image of it has already gone before in you: so that, as John His forerunner, coming before Him, preached that Christ had come, so now, as a bishop, a confessor of the Lord and a priest, returns, it may appear that the Lord too is now returning. But in our stead I and my colleagues and the whole brotherhood [send] this letter to you

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Misprints kept as printed

- col 1006 "occurentium" (for occurrentium) - col 1006 "adventus. imago" (full stop and lower-case imago; for adventus, imago)

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running head: [...] SANCTUM LUCIUM. 1006 (left part of head cut off at image edge)
marginal letters: A IV. Atque utinam nunc facultas; B minum jam redire. Vicarias vero; C ait diabolum, cum oneraretur (in the Variorum notae); D editione Anglicana. BALUZ. (in the Variorum notae)
old-edition numerals: 975 after singulorum
other: column ends mid-sentence at "litteras". B stands between the lines "sore Domini et sacerdote" and "minum jam redire", so its line is uncertain. "charissime" and the second "nunc" are printed with worn c's ("oharissime", "nuno"), and "vobis" with a worn s ("vobie"); they are read as c and s. Variae lectiones and Variorum notae (21)-(23) at the page foot are not set.
running head: 1005 AD SANCTUM LUCIUM. 1006
marginal letters: A ‹IV. Atque utinam›; B ‹minum jam redire›; C ‹ait diabolum (footnotes)›; D ‹editione Anglicana (footnotes)›
old-edition numerals: 975 after ‹singulorum!›

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mittimus, frater charissime, et repraesentantes vobis per epistolam gaudium nostrum fida obsequia charitatis exprominus, hic quoque in sacrificiis atque in orationibus nostris non cessantes Deo Patri et Christo Filio ejus Domino nostro gratias agere, et orare pariter ac petere, ut qui perfectus est atque perficiens, custodiat et perficiat in

we send, dearest brother, and, representing our joy to you by letter, we express the faithful services of love, here too in our sacrifices and in our prayers not ceasing to give thanks to God the Father and to Christ His Son our Lord, and to pray and likewise to ask that He Who is perfect and perfecting may guard and perfect in

vobis confessionis vestrae gloriosam coronam: qui et ad hoc vos fortasse revocavit, ne gloria esset occulta, si foris essent confessionis vestrae consummata martyria. Nam victima, quae fraternitati praebet exemplum virtutis et fidei, praesentibus debet fratribus immolari. Optamus te, frater charissime, semper bene valere.

to you the glorious crown of your confession: Who perhaps also called you back for this purpose, that the glory might not be hidden, if the martyrdoms of your confession were consummated abroad. For the victim that offers the brotherhood an example of virtue and faith ought to be sacrificed with the brethren present. We wish, dearest brother, that you may always fare well.

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Footnotes

Variorum notae

(printed under page 555)

(1) ‹anchor: EPISTOLA LUCII PAPAE I› · call in col 1007

Epistola suspecta eodem jure cum aliis Isodori mercibus. — Epistola. Non unam hanc duntaxat, sed plures decretales epistolas Lucium pontificem scripsisse, testis est Cyprianus epistola LXVII his verbis: Illi enim, loquitur de Cornelio et Lucio pontificibus, pleni Spiritu Dei et in glorioso martyrio constituti, dandam esse lapsis pacem censuerunt, et poenitentia acta fructum communicationis et pacis negandum non esse, litteris suis signaverunt. Quas hac de re Lucius scripsit epistolas non existant. Quae apud Cyprianum LXX reperitur hoc nomine Lucii insignita, a quibusdam hujus pontificis esse creditum fuit, sed ignorantes fuisse episcopum eodem nomine appellatum, decepti sunt perperam eam, quae alterius est, Lucio pontifici ascribentes. Baronius, anno 257, num. 4.

Letter. Suspect by the same right as the rest of Isidore's wares. — Letter. That Pope Lucius wrote not this one only but several decretal letters, Cyprian is witness in Letter 67, in these words: For they, he is speaking of the popes Cornelius and Lucius, full of the Spirit of God and established in glorious martyrdom, judged that peace should be given to the lapsed, and set down in their letters that, once penance had been done, the fruit of communion and peace was not to be denied. The letters Lucius wrote on this matter do not survive. The one found in Cyprian as Letter 70, marked with the name of Lucius, was believed by some to be this pope's; but, not knowing that there was a bishop called by the same name, they were deceived, wrongly ascribing to Pope Lucius a letter that belongs to the other. Baronius, year 257, no. 4.

(printed under page 555)

Misprints kept as printed

- col 1007 "exprominus" (for exprimimus)

Editors' prose

APPENDIX UNICA. EPISTOLAE ET DECRETA S. LUCIO ASCRIPTA.

THE SOLE APPENDIX.

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running head: 1007 S. LUCII PAPÆ ET M… (cut off at the image edge)
marginal letters: A ‹mittimus, frater charissime›; B ‹judice sistendum (in the Variorum notae)›; C ‹I. Ut episcopus semper testes›; D ‹CIDENTALIBUS, TAM IN GALLIIS›
old-edition numerals: 976 after ‹exprominus›
other: full-width lines "APPENDIX UN…" and "EPISTOLAE ET DECRETA S. …" stand between the end of the Variorum notae and the letter title, not set; editors' matter set: Argumentum (Ut duo presbyteri…) and chapter list (I. Ut episcopus semper…); "prcsbyteri" in the Argumentum set as printed (possibly a worn italic e); Variae lectiones and Variorum notae at the page foot left for the later pass
other: a full-width band stands across cols 1007/1008 in mid-page: the 1 paragraph(s) above it in col 1008 are set here, after the 1 above it in col 1007 (reading order, moved on receipt); the band itself (its title lines) is not set by the volunteer page: set it here, at the move, with full_width
other: the column continues with EPISTOLA LUCII PAPAE I (another unit); not set here

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Editors' notes and page, col. 1008