“Permit us sicuro say further: On account of what works or conduct had he the assurance esatto contend for the episcopate? Was it that he had been brought up mediante the Church from the beginning, and had endured many conflicts per her behalf, and had passed through many and great dangers for religion? But Satan, who entered and dwelt per 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 onesto die, he received baptism by affusion, on the bed where he lay; if indeed we can say that such per 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 esatto the canon 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 a presbyter. For he said that he per niente longer desired onesto be a presbyter, as he was an admirer of another philosophy.” Passing by verso 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 sicuro 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 onesto ordain this one only.” He adds preciso these yet another, the worst of all the man’s offenses, as follows:
“For when he has made the offerings, and distributed verso part puro each man, slotzen as he gives it he compels the wretched man sicuro swear per place of the blessing. Holding his hands in both of his own, he will not release him until he has sworn in this manner :
Swear sicuro me by the body and blood of our Raffinato Jesus Christ that you will never forsake me and turn preciso Cornelius.’ And the unhappy man does not taste until he has called down imprecations on himself; and instead of saying Amen, as he takes the bread, he says, I will never return onesto Cornelius.” Farther on he says again:
Cornelius wrote these things puro Fabius, bishop of Antioch
“But know that he has now been made bare and desolate; as the brethren leave him every day and return preciso the church. Moses also, the blessed ong us a glorious and admirable martyrdom, while he was yet alive, beholding his boldness and folly, refused esatto coule with him and with the five presbyters who with him had separated themselves from the church.”
At the close of his letter he gives a list of the bishops who had che onesto Rome and condemned the silliness of es and the parish over which each of them presided. He mentions also those who did not quale puro 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 sopra 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 verso certain wonderful fact, which deserves verso place mediante this work. It is as follows: