The Prescription Against Heretics — Chapter 32

1

Origines, “the originals” (Dodgson).

2

Ille. A touch of irony occurs in the phrase “primus ille episcopus.”

3

Deferunt.

4

Fastos.

5

[Linus and Cletus must have died or been martyred, therefore, almost as soon as appointed. Our author had seen these registers, no doubt.]

6

Confingant.

7

Probabuntur. Another reading is provocabuntur, “will be challenged.” [Not to one particular See, but to all the Apostolic churches: Quod ubique.]

8

Pro consanguinitate doctrinæ.

9

That is, the succession of bishops from the apostles, and the identity of doctrine with the apostolic.

10

Sacramenti.

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