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21 ; von Schubert-Mollcr, I, 284. 27 De Pud. 1. CHAPTER VIII. CYPRIAN, THE LAPSED, AND THE CHURCH IN CARTHAGE. Th£ treatment of apostates to heathenism at Carthage is one of the most difficult questions in Church history. It has to be worked out with in- finite patience from the Epistles of Cyprian, and to arrange these epistles in order of time is itself a per- plexing problem. Thanks to Cyprian experts like Fechtrup, Otto Ritschl, Benson, and Karl Muller, we have now a light and broad path th...rough this thorny thicket. In this chapter I shall follow the guide of Professor Karl Muller, formerly of Bres- lau, now of Tubingen, who, I think, gives the clear- est and most satisfactory statement. 1 First, as to terms used. Those who were im- prisoned or banished for their faith were called confessors by Cyprian. When tortures were used, 1 " Die Bussinstitution in Karthago unter Cyprian, " in Zeitschrift flir Kirchengeschichte, XVI, 1-44, 187-219 (1895). 84 Cyprian, Tin- Lapsed. 85 which was frequently done, especially the laceration of the iron claw, under which death sometimes came as a welcome relief, the sufferers were called mar- tyrs, a term which was also used of confessors who die for any reason.
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