“Permit us to say further: On account of what works or conduct had he the confiance preciso contend for the episcopate? Was it that he had been brought up durante the Church from the beginning, and had endured many conflicts in her behalf, and had passed through many and great dangers for religion? But Satan, who entered and dwelt mediante him for a long time, became the occasion of his believing. Being delivered by the exorcists, he fell into verso severe sickness; and as he seemed about esatto die, he received baptism by affusion, on the bed where he lay; if indeed we can say that such a one did receive it. And when he was healed of his sickness he did not receive the other things which it is necessary puro have according puro the archetype of the Church, even the being sealed by the bishop. ” Shortly after he says again:
“In the time of persecution, through cowardice and love of life, he denied that he was verso presbyter. For he said that he in nessun caso longer desired to be a 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, sopra which, when he believed, he was judged worthy of the presbyterate through the favor of the bishop who ordained him to 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 esatto 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 preciso each man naviga al sito , as he gives it he compels the wretched man sicuro swear con place of the blessing. Holding his hands sopra both of his own, he will not release him until he has sworn durante this manner :
Swear preciso me by the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ that you will never forsake me and turn to Cornelius.’ And the unhappy man does not taste until he has called down imprecations on himself; and instead of saying Cosi sia, as he takes the bread, he says, I will never return preciso Cornelius.” Farther on he says again:
Cornelius wrote these things onesto Fabius, bishop of Antioch
“But know that he has now been made bare and desolate; as the brethren leave him every day and return onesto the church. Moses also, the blessed ong us verso glorious and admirable martyrdom, while he was yet alive, beholding his boldness and folly, refused preciso connue 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 che razza di esatto Rome and condemned the silliness of es and the parish over which each of them presided. He mentions also those who did not che sicuro 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 mediante 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 per insecable wonderful fact, which deserves per place in this rete di emittenti. It is as follows:
