-- 13. Nor do I think that the blessed Cyprian had any other motive in the free expression and earlier utterance of what he thought in opposition to the custom of the Church, save that he should thankfully receive any one that could be found with a fuller

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Footnotes:

[1239] 1 Corinthians 14:29, 30.

[1240] Cypr. Ep. 71.

[1241] Cypr. Ep. 71.

[1242] The former Council of Carthage was held by Agrippinus early in the third century, the ordinary date given being 215-7 A.D.; others 186-7.

[1243] Tanquam lectulo auctoritatis.