[69]Hadrian’s colony in Mount Sion was so named (A.D. 132). Later on the older and more glorious name of Jerusalem was restored to the see.
[70]Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia († A.D. 260), and one of Origen’s distinguished pupils. On the baptismal controversy he sided with Cyprian of Carthage.
[71]The adroit reference to the wonted liberality of the Roman Church is to be noted: other instances are given by Salmon, Infallibility, p. 375.
[72]Here again Dionysius shows his adroitness, if Benson (Cyprian, p. 357) is right in thinking that the list of churches he gives suggests a repetition of the Pentecostal outpouring of the Holy Ghost (Acts ii. 9 f.).
[73]Cp. the letter to Dionysius, [p. 58].
[74]Lev. xxiv. 13-16.
[75]The word here used represents μυστήριον, denoting the Christian revelation as μυστήριον often does.
[76]Cf. 1 Cor. xvi. 22 and Gal. i. 8, 9.
[77]The former are converts from heathenism, or perhaps from heresy; the latter Christians who have lapsed.
[78]The word here is the Greek χειροτονία in Syriac letters, and so might also be rendered “ordination.”