Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/The Decretals/The Epistles of Pope Callistus/Note by the American Editor

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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, The Decretals, The Epistles of Pope Callistus
Various, translated by Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond
Note by the American Editor
160944Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, The Decretals, The Epistles of Pope Callistus — Note by the American EditorStewart Dingwall Fordyce SalmondVarious

Note by the American Editor.

See p. 613, note 1.  For Callistus and his times, see the testimony of Hippolytus, vol. v. pp. 158, 159, 160; Elucidations X., XI., XII., XIII., XIV., XV.  It must be owned that the forgery is better than the genuine productions of this forerunner of the Popes of the ninth and tenth centuries.  The title “Pope,” in its later sense, seems not inappropriate to such a character.