119
Bianchi, 3, 136.
120
The Council of Antioch, in the year 341, almost repeats this canon, and lays it down as of universal application.
121
Bianchi, 3, 132.
122
The following paragraph is a translation from Cardinal Hergenröther’s History, vol. i. pp. 196, 197, sec. 228.
123
Bianchi, 3, 468; quoting the constitution of Pope John XXII.
124
Bianchi, 3, 440. The word Sacerdos is here used as the proper appellation of the bishop in his diocese by Cyprian, Ep. 57, according to the usage in the third century, as the word Ecclesia indicates the diocese; the argument being that if complete obedience were rendered to the bishop in the diocese, there would be complete peace in the whole Church ruled by the Collegium of Bishops.
125
This paragraph translated from Bianchi, 3, 445.
126
Bianchi, 3, 457, 458; St. Augustine in Ps. cxviii.
127
Bianchi, 3, 474, 475.
128
Bianchi, 3, 444; Apostol. Canon, 66 and 74.
129
Bianchi, 3, 500, translated.
130
Bianchi, 3, 485, translated.
131
1 Cor. ix. 14.
132
Bianchi, 3, 526, 527.
133
1 Cor. xvi. 1.
134
Bianchi, 3, 536, translated.
135
1 Cor. xi. 22.
136
An incident mentioned of Alexander Severus.
137
John xx. 30, xxi. 25, xvi. 12.
138
Renaudot, Dissertatio de Liturgiarum Orientalium Origine et Auctoritate, p. li.
139
St. Cœlestini, Ep. 21, Coustant, p. 493. The part quoted is supposed to have been added to St. Cœlestine’s letter (which refers to the death of St. Augustine as having just happened) a little later, but was always joined with it afterwards from the beginning of the sixth century.
140
Franzelin, De Traditione, Thesis vii. p. 49.
141
Translated from Franzelin, Tractatus da Traditione Divina et Scriptura, pp. 50-53, down to “The Teaching Office.”
142
As, e. g., Rom. xvi. 17; 1 Cor. vii. 17, xi. 23, xiv. 33, xv. 12; 2 Cor. i. 18; Gal. i. 18; Phil. iv. 9; Colos. ii. 6, 7; 1 Thess. iv. 2; 2 Thess. ii. 14; 2 Tim. ii. 2; Heb. ii. 3, referred to by Franzelin, but especially Ephes. iv. 11-16, which is of itself sufficient to decide the whole question.
143
St. Irenæus, iii. 24.