{"author":"Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)","date_end":1886,"date_label":"1886 (historical English edition; transcription printing date uncertain)","date_start":1886,"edition_year":1886,"edition_year_basis":"Original ANF V copyright 1886; physical transcription printing date uncertain","id":"ws-library-full-note:82ee2952f34597fc0181:cite_note-6","is_genuine_commentary_verified":false,"license_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Reusing_Wikisource_content","public_import_allowed":true,"publication_location":"source-library","record_type":"editorial-footnote","references":[],"rights_approved":true,"section":"Chapter uncertain, editorial note cite_note-6","semantic_kind_reviewed":false,"source_context":["The writings of Cyprian, apart from their intrinsic worth, have a very considerable historical interest and value, as illustrating the social and religious feelings and usages that then prevailed among the members of the Christian community. Nothing can enable us more vividly to realize the intense convictions—the high-strained enthusiasm—which formed the common level of the Christian experience, than does the indignation with which the prelate denounces the evasions of those who dared not confess, or the lapses of those who shrank from martyrdom. Living in the atmosphere of persecution, and often in the immediate presence of a lingering death, the professors of Christianity were nerved up to a wonderful contempt of suffering and of worldly enjoyment, and saw every event that occurred around them in the glow of their excited imagination; so that many circumstances were sincerely believed and honestly recorded, which will not be for a moment received as true by the calm and critical reader. The account given by Cyprian in his treatise on the Lapsed may serve as an illustration. Of this Dean Milman observes: “In what a high-wrought state of enthusiasm must men have been, who could relate and believe such statements as miraculous!”"],"source_library_url":"/library/82ee2952f34597fc0181/#ws-library-full-note:82ee2952f34597fc0181:cite_note-6","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_V/Cyprian/Introductory_Notice_to_Cyprian#cite_note-6","translator":"Robert Ernest Wallis (translator), Alexander Roberts (series editor), James Donaldson (series editor), Arthur Cleveland Coxe (American edition editor)","verification":{"proof_file":"raw/review/source-library-note-batch-0060/proof-records.jsonl","proof_file_sha256":"5ab7515afe3bdd69d27d5f8dcf7a632bd04e61bfac727cfe98b438bd75cdb4ce","proof_record_id":"ws-library-full-note:82ee2952f34597fc0181:cite_note-6"},"verified":true,"work":"Introductory Notice to Cyprian","work_id":"ws-cyprian-anf5-82ee2952f34597fc0181"}