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Scripture, Tradition, and the Church
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 October 2024
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We read in the Acts of the Apostles (xv, 23-29) :
‘The Apostles and ancients, brethren, to the brethren of the Gentiles that are at Antioch and in Syria and Cilicia—Greeting.
‘It hath seemed good to us assembled together (
to choose out men and to send them unto you. with our well-beloved Barnabas and Paul, men that have given their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
‘We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves also by word of mouth will tell you the same things.
‘For it hath seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to lay no further burden upon you than these necessary things—that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols—and from blood—and from things strangled—and from fornication. From which things keeping yourselves you shall do well. Fare ye well.’
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- Copyright © 1943 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers
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The substance of a paper read, in connection with the Church Unity Octave, at Oxford, January, 1943. For Fr. McNabb's paper for the Octave, 1942, ‘The World Mission of the Jews,’ cf. Prayer and Unity (Blackwell; 5s.).
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2 We cannot help noting the official precedent set by sending, not one legate but two. For official authentication Rome's practice is to have two witnesses. The precedent set by the Church's first Council was followed some three centuries later by the Second Council of Nicea (a.d. 325). To that Council Pope St. Silvester I sent as his legates the Roman priests Victor and Vincentius, and appointed them presidents of the Council.
3 Quoted from Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae. (Maskell, London, 1847). Vol. iii, p. 250
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