“Permit us sicuro say further: On account of what works or conduct had he the combat onesto contend for the episcopate? Was it that he had been brought up mediante the Church from the beginning, and had endured many conflicts sopra her behalf, and had passed through many and great dangers for religion? But Satan, who entered and dwelt mediante him for verso long time, became the occasion of his believing. Being delivered by the exorcists, he fell into per severe sickness; and as he seemed about puro die, he received baptism by affusion, on the bed where he lay; if indeed we can say that such per one did receive it. And when he was healed of his sickness he did not receive the other things which it is necessary preciso have according onesto the arome of the Church, even the being sealed by the bishop. ” Shortly after he says again:
“Sopra the time of persecution, through cowardice and love of life, he denied that he was per presbyter. For he said that he giammai longer desired esatto be verso presbyter, as he was an admirer of another philosophy.” Passing by a few things, he adds the following:
“For this illustrious man forsook the Church of God, in which, when he believed, he was judged worthy of the presbyterate through the favor of the bishop who ordained him https://euro-casinos.org/it/ puro the presbyterial office. This had been resisted by all the clergy and many of the laity; because it was unlawful that one who had been affused on his bed on account of sickness as he had been should enter into any clerical office; but the bishop requested that he might be permitted onesto ordain this one only.” He adds esatto these yet another, the worst of all the man’s offenses, as follows:
“For when he has made the offerings, and distributed verso part onesto each man, as he gives it he compels the wretched man esatto swear sopra place of the blessing. Holding his hands mediante both of his own, he will not release him until he has sworn con this manner :
Swear onesto me by the body and blood of our Nobile Jesus Christ that you will never forsake me and turn preciso Cornelius.’ And the unhappy man does not taste until he has called down imprecations on himself; and instead of saying Amen, as he takes the bread, he says, Volte will never return sicuro Cornelius.” Farther on he says again:
Cornelius wrote these things esatto Fabius, bishop of Antioch
“But know that he has now been made bare and desolate; as the brethren leave him every day and return sicuro the church. Moses also, the blessed ong us a glorious and admirable martyrdom, while he was yet alive, beholding his boldness and folly, refused preciso coule with him and with the five presbyters who with him had separated themselves from the church.”
At the close of his letter he gives per list of the bishops who had ad esempio to Rome and condemned the silliness of es and the parish over which each of them presided. He mentions also those who did not ad esempio esatto Rome, but who expressed by letters their agreement with the vote of these bishops, giving their names and the cities from which they severally sent them.
Truly this is not the fact
Alexandria also wrote an epistle. He writes per this many other things concerning repentance, and relates the conflicts of those who had lately suffered martyrdom at Alexandria. After the other account he mentions verso indivisible wonderful fact, which deserves a place mediante this work. It is as follows: