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LXX. NOVATIAN THE HERESIARCH ovatian, a priest of the city of Rome,1 having attempted to seize the episcopal see of Cornelius,2 established the teachings of the Novatians, who in Greek are called Kaqarw'n, or the “pure ones,”3 being unwilling to accept the apostates as penitents.4 His champion was Novatus, one of Cyprian’s priests.5 2. He wrote On the Passover, On the Sabbath, On Circumcision, On the Priesthood, On Prayer, On Foods of the Jews,6 On Zeal, On Attalus, and many other works7 and a large volume, On the Trinity,8 making a sort of ejpitomh;n of the work of Tertullian, which many through ignorance regard as a work of Cyprian.9 notes 1. Eus., h.e. 6.43.1. In general the Greeks call him Novatus; in the West he is Novatian. 2. Surprisingly Jerome does not include here the episode of Novatian’s illicit ordination as a bishop, provided by Eusebius, and detailed in the juicy letter from Cornelius to Fabius of Antioch, in h.e. 6.43.5–22 (mentioned in DVI 66.1). 3. Kaqaroiv : h.e. 6.43.1. 4. On the penance question cf. Eus., h.e. 6.43.2. 5. On Novatus cf. EECh 2, 605, E. Romero Pose. 6. On Jewish Foods, De cibis iudaicis: CPL 68; FOTC 67, 137–56. 7. Including perhaps his Letters, a copy of which Jerome had requested from Paul of Concordia (ep. 10), explaining, “so that, as we become acquainted with the poisons of the schismatic we may the more gladly drink of the antidote of the holy martyr Cyprian” (trans. Mierow, ACW 33, 51–52). See Q 2, 213, 226. 8. On the Trinity: his most famous work. See CPL 71. Text appears in CCL 4, 11–78, ed. Diercks; in Novaciano. La Trinidad, ed. with intro., trans., and comm. by C. Granado, Fuentes patrísticas 8 (Madrid, 1996); and in Nova102 ST. JEROME ...

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