[243] Libell, Apologet. Ennod. apud Mansi, tom. vii. p. 271.
[244] Epist. ad Senator. Urbis Rom. ann. 502. Mansi, viii. col. 293.
[245] "In qua (Eccl. Rom.) ab his qui sunt undique conservata est ea, quæ est ab apostolis traditio." Adv. Hær. l. iii. c. 3.
[246] Hist. vol. i. p. 257. If "potentior principalitas" signified only greater antiquity, how could the church of Rome claim preëminence above the churches of Antioch and Ephesus?
[247] "Hanc Ecclesiæ unitatem qui non tenet, tenere se fidem credit?" De Unit. Eccl. p. 349. (Edit. Wir.)
St. August, in his 43d epist., says of the church of Rome, "Semper viguit apostolicæ cathedræ principatus."
[248] Epist. cxvii. ad Renat. Presbyt. Rom.
[249] The very words of pseudo-Isidore on the purity of the "faith of Rome" are literally transcribed from the epistle of Pope Agatho to the Emperor Constantine in the year 680. (Mansi, tom. xi. col. 239.)
[250] De Antiquis Collect, pars iii. capp. iv. Gallandi, Sylloge. tom. i. p. 528 sqq.
[251] About 1809, under Napoleon.