{"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-8","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-8","semantic_kind_reviewed":false,"source_context":["There seems nothing to suggest the date of Epistles 60 and 61, except the probability that they were written during a time of peace; and for this reason they are referred to the beginning of Cyprian’s episcopate, before the outbreak of the Decian persecution, a.d. 249. It is usual to assign Epistle 64 to the same year, or at least to a very early period of Cyprian’s official life; but it seems scarcely likely that his episcopal counsel should have been sought by a brother bishop in a matter of practice, until he had had some experience; and as it was probably written at a time of peace, when discipline had become relaxed, the date 253 seems preferable. The 68th Epistle is easily dated by the reference, on page 246, to an episcopate of six years’ duration; and it must therefore have been written in a.d. 254. On the 14th September, Cyprian was banished to Curubis by the Emperor Valerian. From his place of exile he wrote Epistle 76, which was replied to in Epistles 77, 78, and 79. Doubts are entertained as to the date of Epistle 80, whether it should be referred to a.d. 250 or 257. Pamelius prefers the latter date, on the ground that the Rogatianus to whom it is inscribed was one who survived the Decian persecution, and a younger man than the one who, as he supposes, was declared to have suffered martyrdom at the date of this Epistle. This, however, seems very unsatisfactory; and the weight of authority is in favour of the earlier date. The remaining Epistles are easily limited by their contents to the period immediately preceding Cyprian’s martyrdom."],"source_library_url":"/library/82ee2952f34597fc0181/#ws-library-full-note:82ee2952f34597fc0181:cite_note-8","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_V/Cyprian/Introductory_Notice_to_Cyprian#cite_note-8","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-0061/proof-records.jsonl","proof_file_sha256":"7c4407a5986a306f1eaff33bf3f1bf135fc2e65f72270d1b3381ed0616bfbce3","proof_record_id":"ws-library-full-note:82ee2952f34597fc0181:cite_note-8"},"verified":true,"work":"Introductory Notice to Cyprian","work_id":"ws-cyprian-anf5-82ee2952f34597fc0181"}