357:1] Firmilian, "Cypriani Epistolae," lxxv.

[357:2] Matt. xvi. 16-18.

[357:3] John i. 42.

[357:4] See 1 Pet. ii. 5. Peter adds, as if to illustrate Matt. xvi.
18--"Wherefore also it is contained in the Scripture--Behold I lay in
Zion _a chief corner stone_, elect, precious; _and he that believeth on
him shall not be confounded_." 1 Pet. ii. 6.

[358:1] Matt. vii. 24, 25.

[358:2] See Tertullian, "De Praescrip." xxii.; and Cyprian to Cornelius,
Epist. lv. p. 178, where he says--"Petrus, tamen, super quem aedificuta
ab eodem Domino fuerat ecclesia." See also the same epistle, pp. 182,
183, and many other passages.

[358:3] Thus, Cyprian in his letter to Quintus (Epist. lxxi. p. 273)
makes the following awkward attempt to get over the difficulty:--"Nam
nec Petrus, _quem primum Dominus elegit, et super quem aedificavit
ecclesiam suam,_ cum secum Paulus de circumcisione postmodum
disceptaret, vindicavit sibi aliquid insolenter aut arroganter
assumpsit, _ut diceret se primatum tenere et obtemperari a novellis et
posteris sibi potius oportere_."

[359:1] A.D. 325.

[359:2] The Suburbicarian Provinces comprehended the three islands of
Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia, and the whole of the southern part of
Italy, including Naples and nearly all the territory now belonging to
Tuscany and the States of the Church. See Bingham, iii. p. 20.

[359:3] Basil, Ep. 220.

[360:1] Euseb. vii. 50.

[360:2] Thus we read of "the blessed Pope Cyprian," bishop of Carthage.
Cyprian, Epist. ii. p. 25. The name was sometimes given to the head of a
monastery. In the catacombs there was found an inscription probably to
the memory of a Pope of this description. See Maitland, p. 185. See also
Routh's "Reliquiae," iii. pp. 256, 265.

[360:3] See Bower, "Marcellus," 29th Bishop.

[360:4] That is, from the autumn of A.D. 304 to the spring of A.D. 308.
See Burton's "Lectures on the Ecc. Hist, of the First Three Cent." ii.
p. 433.

[361:1] In the life of Marcellus we read of so many places of worship in
Rome. See "Hist. Platinae De Vitis Pontif. Roman," p. 40, Coloniae,
1593. Optatus speaks of forty churches in Rome at this time; but he is
probably mistaken as to the date. There may have been so many after the
establishment of Christianity by Constantine. There were only fifty
churches in the Western capital in the beginning of the fifth century.
See Neander, i. 276; Edit. Edinburgh, 1847.

[362:1] In Matt. xvi. 18. Opera, tom. ii. p.