(a) The magnificent conception of the unity of the Church, of the faithful as constituting one body in Christ so closely knit together as to make isolated or solitary prayer out of the question. This is not a new nor original idea, but it is finely expressed here— St Cyprian was martyred in A.D. 258. (cf. No. viii.)

(b) Following on this, the strong emphasis on concord and peace. So emphatic indeed is St Cyprian as to be led into the strange assertion that not even martyrdom can wipe out the sin of schism, (n. xxiv.)

(c) Clear teaching on the value—the necessity even—of daily Holy Communion, (n. xviii.)

(d) The interesting eulogy on Abel as the first martyr, thereby initiating the Passion of Christ, (n. xxiv.)

(e) On the acknowledgement of sin as the prelude to the sense of it. This again is not new; St John (i: I: 9) says the same thing, but it is often overlooked, (n. xxii.)