FOOTNOTES:
[1] The following chapter is translated from Passaglia, Pp. 339-360.
[2] This is not said as limiting revelation to such points, but to exhibit the scope of the present work, which uses testimony merely as a human, though very important, support of the cause.
[3] The texts relating to the primacy, the Evangelists' mode of writing, that of S. Luke in the first twelve chapters of the Acts, and that of S. Paul.
[4] The Apostles' contest about "the greater," the distinction between the founder, and the visible head of the Church, and for false interpretations, the primacy of mere precedency, the perversion of John xxi. 15-20, the assertion of Apostolic equality, and Gal. i 18-20.
[5] Interroga igitur, si quid veritatis cupis audire, principaliter sedis Apostolicæ antistitem, cujus sana doctrina constat judicio veritatis, et fulcitur munimine auctoritatis. Ferrandus in Epist. ad Severum.
[6] Socrates, Hist. L. 2, c. 8-17. Sozomen, hist. L. 3, c. 10.
[7] In fragm. epist. apud Baluzium, Miscell. Lib. 5, p. 467.
[8] Ferrandus in litteris ad Pelagium.