Section 1

Notes

1. 1

   [“In the name,” etc., implies as Jesus Christ commanded, St. Matt. xxviii. 19.]

2. 2

   [This was assumed by the Westerns to be the general rule, whereas it was only local. See p. 408, note 7, supra.]

3. 3

   1 Cor. i. 10.

4. 4

   [The bitterness with which Vincent follows up the assumption, that there was a general custom of all the churches, shows how sadly this controversy became envenomed in the West. Cap. vi. is a blemish on his Commonitory.]