Pride
The vice of arrogance, especially as manifested in the presumptuous seizure of ecclesiastical office. Cyprian contrasts those "puffed up by the swelling of their arrogance and pride" who seize the episcopate with the truly humble Cornelius who suffered compulsion to accept it.
Preliminaries
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TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI.
— Cyprian contrasts those "who are puffed up by the swelling of their arrogance and pride" and seize the episcopate with the truly humble Cornelius who suffered compulsion to accept it.
"he neither sought the episcopate itself, nor desired it, nor seized it as others do who are puffed up by the swelling of their arrogance and pride"