St. Peter, His Name and His Office, as Set Forth in Holy Scripture

487

Gelasius, Epis. 14.

488

Hormisdas, Mansi, Tom. 8, 451, in the conditions on which he readmitted the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Eastern bishops to communion.

489

Agatho, in a letter to the sixth council, read and accepted at its fourth sitting.

490

Maximus, Bibl. Patr. Tom. 11, p. 76.

491

Leo, Epist. 10, c. 1.

492

Ep. 358, to Pope Celestine.

493

The above chapter is translated from Passaglia, Pp. 298-336.

494

The following chapter is translated from Passaglia, Pp. 339-360.

495

This is not said as limiting revelation to such points, but to exhibit the scope of the present work, which uses testimony merely as a human, though very important, support of the cause.

496

The texts relating to the primacy, the Evangelists' mode of writing, that of S. Luke in the first twelve chapters of the Acts, and that of S. Paul.

497

The Apostles' contest about "the greater," the distinction between the founder, and the visible head of the Church, and for false interpretations, the primacy of mere precedency, the perversion of John xxi. 15-20, the assertion of Apostolic equality, and Gal. i 18-20.

498

Interroga igitur, si quid veritatis cupis audire, principaliter sedis Apostolicæ antistitem, cujus sana doctrina constat judicio veritatis, et fulcitur munimine auctoritatis. Ferrandus in Epist. ad Severum.

499

Socrates, Hist. L. 2, c. 8-17. Sozomen, hist. L. 3, c. 10.

500

In fragm. epist. apud Baluzium, Miscell. Lib. 5, p. 467.

501

Ferrandus in litteris ad Pelagium.

502

Mansi. Tom. 8, 54, 34.

503

Avitus, Epist. 36.

504

Gelasius, Epist. 4, ad Faustum. Mansi. 8, 17.

505

Mansi. Tom. xi. 184.

506

See Peter Ballerini, de potestate ecclesiastica, cap. 1, § 1-6.

507

See Mamachi, origines et antiquitates Christianæ, Tom 2.

508

See Muzzarelli, de auctoritate Rom. Pontificis in Conciliis generalibus, c. v. § 9.

509

See Mamachi, as above, Tom. v part. 1, c. 2.

510

Amm. Marcellinus, Lib. 15, c. 7.

511

The following paragraph, down to "within and without," I have introduced here. It is not in F. Passaglia.

512

Aug. de utilitate credendi, c. 7, n. 19.

513

Tit. iii. 10.

514

Luke xv. 9; xi. 5; xviii. 2.

515

Tertullian, de Præsc. c. 21.

516

Mansi, concilia, Tom. 11, 239.

517

Responsis ad Lutheram, c. x.

518

Sense, says John, is the connection or mutual relation of notions intended by the author in his words, or, according to others, which is the same thing, the conception of the mind which the author has expressed in words, and wishes to raise in his readers. This sense, whether it springs from the proper or whether from the improper and metaphorical meaning of words, or from allegorical language, is immediate, grammatical, and literal.

519

Acts xiv. 22; xx. 28; 1 Tim. v. 19-22; 2 Tim. iv. 2-5; Tit. i. 5; 1 Pet. v. 2, 3.

520

Matt. xvi. 18; xviii. 18; John x. 16; Eph. v. 25; 1 Cor. xii; John xvii. 20-26.

521

Luke xxiv. 47; Acts i. 8; ix. 15; Coloss. i. 8.; 1 Cor. i. 23; ix. 20; Rom. x. 18.

522

Origen. preface [Greek: kezi azchôn], n. 2.

523

2 Tim. ii. 2.

524

See Athanas. de decritis Nic. Synodi, and also Hist. tripartit. Lib. 2, 2-3.

525

See Vincent of Lerins. Commonit. c. 32, 3.

526

Leontius, Contr. Nestorium. Lib. 1.

527

Cassian, De Incarn. Lib. 1.

528

Theodoret, in the three dialogues.

529

Augustine, cont. Cresconium, 1, c. 32-3.

530

Jerome, Ep. 126, and dialog. adv. Luciferianos.

531

Epiphanius. bæres. 61, 75, 78.

532

Basil, cont. Eunomium, Lib. 1; de Spiritu S. c. 29.

533

Origen in Matt. Tract. 29.

534

Tertullian, throughout the book De Prescriptionibus.

535

Clement, Stromatum, Lib. 7.

536

Irenæus, Lib. 4, c. 63 and 45.

537

It may be allowable also to refer to the fifth section of the work mentioned in the preface, "The See of S. Peter," &c.

538

S. Greg. Ep. Lib. 5, 20.