in the Church. That alone is truth, which in nothing differs from ecclesiastical and apostolical tradition.”[1] Præf. Lib. 1. Periarchon, T. 1. p. 47. Edit. PP. S. Mauri, Paris, 1733.
“Let him look to it, who, arrogantly puffed up, contemns the apostolic words. To me it is good, to adhere to Apostolic men, as to God, and his Christ, and to draw intelligence from the Scriptures, according to the sense that has been delivered by them. — If we follow the mere letter of the Scriptures, and take the interpretation of the law, as the Jews commonly explain it, I shall blush to confess, that the Lord should have given such laws.—But if the law of God be understood as the Church teaches, then truly does it transcend all human laws, and is worthy of him that gave it.” Hom. vii. in Levit. T. 11. p. 224, 226.
“ As often as heretics produce the Canonical Scriptures, in which every Christian agrees, and believes, they seem to say, Lo! with us is the word of truth. But to them (the heretics) we cannot give credit, nor depart from the first and ecclesiastical tradition: we can believe only, as the succeeding Churches of God have delivered."-Tract. xxix. in Mat. T. iii. p. 864.
St. CYPRIAN, [2] L. C.-“ Christ says to his Apostles, and, through them, to all ministers, who, by a regular ordination,
- ↑ Except a few fragments of the original Greek, only a Latin translation of these works of Origen remains.
- ↑ He was bishop of Carthage, and died a martyr in the year 258. Actively concerned in the affairs of his own and of other churches, he corresponded widely, and has left us eighty-one epistles on various ecclesiastical subjects, and several Tracts; among which is one on the Unity of the Church, written against the Novatian schismatics, who disturbed the peace of the Church.
