[18] Gratiani Decret. P. I. Dist. XXXI. c. xi.
[19] Gratiani Comment. in Can. 13. Dist. LVI. See also Comment. in Dist. XXXI.
[20] Summa II. ii. Quæst. 186 Art. 4 § 3.
[21] Gemma Eccles. II. vi.
[22] Casar solien todos los clérigos antiguamiente en el comienzo de la nuestra ley, segunt lo facien en la ley vieja de los judios: mas despues deso los clérigos de occidente, que obedecieron siempre á la eglesia de Roma, accordaron de vevir en castidat.—Las Siete Partidas I. vi. 39.
[23] Dial. Sophiæ et Naturæ Act. 4.
[24] Non erravit ecclesia primitiva quæ sacerdotibus permisit uxores.—Ænei Sylvii Epist. CXXX. (ap. Zaccaria, Storia Polemica del Celibato Sacro, Roma, 1775, p. 354).
[25] Boussard’s tract “De continentia Sacerdotum sub hac quæstione nova. Utrum papa possit cum sacerdote dispensare ut nubat,” was several times reprinted. The edition before me is that of Nürnberg, 1510.
[26] Le Plat, Concil. Trident. Monument. VI. 337.
[27] Zaccaria, op. cit. p. 65. It is curious to observe how, in his anxiety to explain the neglect of the church for these assumed Apostolic commands, Zaccaria proceeds to show that the orders of the Apostles were never received as absolutely binding, as for instance in regard to the prohibition of eating blood and animals dead through strangulation (Ib. p. 116).