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III. πρῶτος τῶν τότε Κυπριακός, τῆς κατὰ Καρχηδόνα παροικίας ποιμήν, οὐδ’ ἄλλως ἢ διὰ λουτροῦ πρότερον τῆς πλάνης ἀποκαθηραμένους προσίεσθαι δεῖν ἡγεῖτο. ἀλλ’ ὅ γε Στέφανος μὴ δεῖν τι νεώτερον παρὰ τὴν κρατήσασαν ἐπικαινοτομεῖν οἰόμενος, ἐπὶ τούτῳ διηγανάκτει·
III. Cyprian, pastor of the community at Carthage, was the first of those of his day to consider that they ought not to be admitted otherwise than by having been first cleansed from their error by baptism. But Stephen, thinking that they ought not to make any innovation contrary to the tradition that had prevailed from the beginning, was full of indignation thereat.