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HOLY WRIT
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'All Scripture, inspired by God, is profitable to teach, to reprove,
to correct, to instruct in justice' II Tim 3:16

FATHERS
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ANASTASIUS OF ANTIOCH

'It is manifest that those things are not to be inquired into, which
Scripture has passed over into silence. For the Holy Spirit has
dispensed and administered to us all things which conduce to our
profit'
   Anagog. Contemp. in Hexem. lib 8 init.

ATHANASIUS

"...from the tokens of truth are more exact as drawn from Scripture,
than from other sources..."
   De Decretis, 31

"The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the
preaching of the Truth'
  Contra Gentiles, 1:1

"These [canonical] books are the fountains of salvation, so that he
who thirsts may be satisfied with the oracles contained in them: in
these alone the school of piety preaches the Gospel; let no man add to
or take away from them."
  Festal Letters 39

"For they were spoken and written by God."
  De Incarnatione 56

"...the Scriptures...will learn from them more completely and clearly
the exact detail of what we said"
  De Incarnatione 56

"Scripture is of all things most sufficient for us."
  Ad Epis Aeg 4

"Divine Scripture is sufficient above all things."
  De Synodis 6

ANTONY of EGYPT

'The Scriptures are enough for instruction."
   Vita S. Antoni 16

AUGUSTINE

'What more shall I teach you than what we read in the Apostle? For
Holy Scripture fixes the rule for our doctrine, lest we dare to be
wiser than we ought.'
   De Bono Viduitatis 2

'Let us therefore give in ... to the authority of the Holy Scriptures'
   De Peccatorum 33

'Let us search for the church in the sacred Scriptures'
   Epis 105

'[H]e will find there in much greater abundance things that are to be
found nowhere else, but can be learnt only in the wonderful sublimity
and wonderful simplicity of the Scriptures'
   De Doctr. Christ. 2,42,63

'It believes also the Holy Scriptures, old and new, which we call
canonical, and which are the source of the faith by which the just
lives...'
   De Civ. Dei 19,18

BASIL

'The hearers taught in the Scriptures ought to test what is said by
teachers and accept that which agrees with the Scriptures but reject
what is foreign'
   Moralia 72:1

'Therefore let God-inspired Scripture decide between us; and on
whichever side be found doctrines in harmony with the word of God, in
favor of that side will be cast the vote of truth'
   Ep. Ad Eustathius

CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA

'How can we prove and certify as true something which Sacred Scripture
does not attest?'
  Glaphyra on Genesis, PG 69,53c

CYRIL of JERUSALEM

'In regard to the divine and holy mysteries of the faith, not the
least part may be handed on without the Holy Scriptures.  Do not be
led astray by winning words and clever arguments.  Even to me, who
tell you these things, do not give ready belief, unless you receive
from the Holy Scriptures the proof of the things which I announce. The
salvation in which we believe is not proved from clever reasoning, but
from the Holy Scriptures.
   Catechetical Lectures 4,17.

'Nothing must be taught without the Sacred Scriptures'
  PG 33,476-7

CHRYSOSTOM

'Therefore I beg you all that you give up what appeals to this one or
that one and that you address all these questions concerning these
things to the Scriptures.'
   Homily 13 on 2 Corinthians

'If anything is said without Scripture, the thinking of the hearers
limps. But where the testimony proceeds from the divinely given
Scripture, it confirms both the speech of the preacher and the soul of
the hearer'
   Commenting on Psalm 95

'But when Scripture wants to teach us something like that, it
interprets itself and does not permit the hearer to err.  I therefore
beg and entreat that we close our ears to all these things and follow
the canon of the Holy Scripture exactly'
   Homily 13 on Genesis

'As a trusty door, Scripture shuts out heretics, securing us from
error...'
   Joann. 58

'Everything in the divine Scriptures is clear and straightforward;
they inform us about all that is necessary'
   Epis 2 ad Thess 3,4

IRENAEUS(The Father of Tradition)

'[B]eing most properly assured that the Scriptures are indeed perfect,
since they were spoken by the Word of God'
   Against Heresies 2,28,2

'The apostles at that time first preached the Gospel but later by the
will of God, they delivered it to us in the Scriptures, that it might
be the foundation and pillar of our faith'
   Against Heresies 3,1

'Since, therefore, the tradition from the apostles does thus exist in
the Church, and is permanent among us, let us revert to the Scriptural
proof furnished by those apostles who did also write the Gospel, in
which they recorded the doctrine regarding God, pointing out that our
Lord Jesus Christ is the truth, and that no lie is in Him'
  AH 3,5,1

JEROME

'Ignorance of Scriptures is Ignorance of Christ'
  In Is. Prologue

ORIGEN

'It is necessary to take the Holy Scriptures as witnesses; for our
comments and statements without these witnesses are not trustworthy'
   In Jerem 1,7

'For he knows that Scripture, as a whole, is God's One Perfect and
Complete Instrument, giving forth, to those who wish to learn its one
saving music...'
   In Matt. tom 2

TERTULLIAN

"If it is nowhere written, then let it fear the woe which impends on
all who add to or take away from the written word"
  Ad Hermogenes 22

'It is right that His conduct be investigated according to the rule of
Scripture'
   Ad Marcion 3,17

THEOPHILUS OF ANTIOCH

'It would be acting according to demonic inspiration to follow the
thinking of the human mind and to think there could be anything divine
apart from the authority of the Scriptures'
  Pascal Letter of 401


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| Quotes emphasizing Tradition |
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HOLY WRIT
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'[A]nd maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you'
   1 Corinthians 11:2

FATHERS
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AMBROSE

'But if they will not beleive the doctrines of the priests, let them
beleive Christ's oracles, let them beleive the admonitions of angels
who say, "For with God nothing is impossible". Let them beleive the
apostles CREED WHICH the ROMANS CHURCH as always kept undefiled'
   To Sircius

ATHANASIUS

'The confession arrived at Nicea was, we say more, SUFFICIENT and
enough by ITSELF, for the subversion of all ireligious heresy, and for
the security and furtherance of the doctrine of the Church'
  Ad Afros 1

'But the WORD OF THE LORD which came THROUGH the Ecumenical Synod at
Nicea, abides forever'
  Ad Afros 2

'forcing on the divine oracles a misinterpretation according to their
OWN PRIVATE sense'
  Orat 1,37

'...that He was not before that time, but is wholly man by nature and
nothing more. But this is NO sentiment of the CHURCH, but of the
Samosatene and of the present Jews...'
  Orat 1,38

"This then I consider the sense of this passage, and that, a
VERY ECCLESIASTICAL sense."
  Orat 1,44

'Who heard in his FIRST CATECHISING, that God has a Son and has made
all things by His proper Word, *BUT* understood it in THAT SENSE in
which we now mean it? Who on the rise of this odious heresy of the
Arians, was not startled at what he heard, as *strange* '
 Orat 2,34

"However here too they(the Arians) introduce their private fictions,
and contend that the Son and the Father are not in such wise 'one,' or
'like,' as the CHURCH preaches, but as they themselves would have it"
  Orat 3,10

"If we now consider the OBJECT of that FAITH which we Christians HOLD,
and using it as a RULE, apply ourselves, as the Apostle teaches to the
reading of inspired Scripture. For Christ's enemies, being ignorant of
this OBJECT, have wandered from the way of truth, and have stumbled on
a stone of stumbling, thinking otherwise than they should think"
  Orat 3,28

'let us, retaining the GENERAL SCOPE of the faith, acknowledge that
what they interpret ill, HAS a right intepretation'
  Orat 3,35

Had Christ enemies thus dwelt on these thoughts, and recognized the
ECCLESIASTICAL SCOPE and an ANCHOR for the faith, they would NOT have
made SHIPWRECK of the faith..."
  Orat 3,58

"We are content with the fact that this is not the teaching of the
Catholic Church, nor did the Fathers hold this."
  Epis 59

"But our faith is right, and starts from the teaching of the Apostles
and tradition of the fathers, being confirmed both by the NT and the
Old."
  Epis 60

"But after him (the devil) and with him are all inventors of unlawful
heresies,who indeed refer to the Scriptures, BUT DO NOT hold such
opinions as thesaints have handed down, and receiving them as the
traditions of men, err,because they DO NOT rightly KNOW THEM nor their
power"
  Festal Letter 2

'Scarcely, however, did they begin to speak, when they were condemned,
and one differed from another; then perceiving the straits in which
their heresy lay, they remained dumb, and by their silence confessed
the disgrace which came upon their heterodoxy. On this the Bishops,
having negatived the terms they had invented, published against them
the SOUND and ECCLESIASTICAL faith....And what is strange indeed,
Eusebius of Caesarea in Palestine, who had denied the day before, but
afterward subscribed, sent to his Church a letter, saying that this
was the CHURCH's faith and the TRADITION of the FATHERS'
 De Decretis 3

'Are they not then committing a crime in their very thought to gainsay
so GREAT and ECUMENICAL a Council'?
 De Decretis 4

'For, what OUR FATHERS have delivered, THIS IS TRULY DOCTRINE; and
this is truly the TOKEN of doctors, to CONFESS THE SAME THING with
each other, and to vary NEITHER from themselves nor from their
FATHERS...Thus the Greeks, as not witnessing to the SAME doctrines,
but quarreling one with another, have no truth of teaching; but the
holy and veritable HERALDS of TRUTH AGREE TOGETHER, and do not
differ..preaching the same Word harmoniously'
 De Decretis 4

'...and it is seemingly and most irreligious when Scripture contains
such images, to form ideas concerning our Lord from others which are
neither in Scripture, nor have any religious bearing. THEREFORE let
them tell us FROM WHAT TEACHER or BY WHAT TRADITION they derived these
notions concerning the Saviour?...But they seem to me to have a wrong
understanding of this passage also; for it has a RELIGIOUS and VERY
ORTHODOX sense, which had they understood, they would NOT have
blasphemed the Lord of glory'
 De Decretis 13

'...and in dizziness about TRUTH, are full set upon accusing the
COUNCIL, let them tell us what are the Scriptures from what they have
learned , or WHO is the saint by whom they have BEEN TAUGHT...'
 De Decretis 18

'MUST needs hold and intend the decisions of the Council, suitably
regarding them to signify the relation of the RADIANCE to the LIGHT,
and FROM THENCE gaining the illustration TO THE TRUTH'
 De Decretis 20

'We are PROVING that THIS view has been TRANSMITTED from FATHER to
FATHER, but ye, O modern Jews and disciples of Caiaphas, how many
FATHERS CAN YE ASSIGN to your phrases? Not one of the understandings
and wise; for all abhor you, but the devil alone; none but he is your
father in this apostasy, who both in the beginning sowed you with the
seed of this IRRELIGION, and now persuades you to slander the
ECUMENICAL Council, for committing to writing, not YOUR doctrines, but
that which from the BEGINNING those who were eyewitnesses and
ministers of the Word have handed down to us. For the faith which the
COUNCIL has confessed in writing, that is the faith of the Catholic
Church; to assert this, the BLESSED FATHERS so expressed themselves
while condemning the Arian heresy...'
 De Decretis 27

'...For they dissent from each other, and , whereas they have revolted
from THEIR FATHERS, are not of ONE AND THE SAME MIND, but float about
with various and discordant changes'
 De Synodis 13

'For it is right and meet thus to feel, and to maintain a good
conscience toward the FATHERS, if we be not spurious children, but
have received the TRADITIONS from them, and the LESSONS of religion at
their hands'
 De Synodis 47

'Such then, as we confess and beleive, being the SENSE of the
FATHERS...'
 De Synodis 48

'...but do you, remaining on the foundation of the Apostles, and
holding fast the TRADITIONS of the FATHERS, pray that now at length
all strife and rivalry may CEASE and the futile questions of the
heretics may be condemned...'
 De Synodis 54

'Of course, the holy Scriptures, divinely inspired are self-sufficient
for the proclamation of the truth. But there are also numerous works
composed for this purpose by blessed teachers. The ONE WHO READS THEM
will ==UNDERSTAND== the INTERPRETATION of the Scriptures AND will be
ABLE to GAIN knowledge he desrires'
 C. Gentes 1

'But the sectaries, who have fallen away from the TEACHING of the
CHURCH, and made SHIPWRECK concerning the faith'
 C. Gentes 6

'But that the soul is made immortal is a further point in the CHURCH'S
TEACHING which you must know...'
 C. Gentes 33

'But what is also to the point, let us note that the very TRADITION,
teaching, and faith of the Catholic Church from the beginning was
preached by the Apostles and PRESERVED by the FATHERS. On this the
CHURCH was founded; and if anyone departs from THIS, he neither is,
nor any longer ought to be called, a Christian.'
   Ad Serapion 1,28

ANTONY of EGYPT

"Wherefore keep yourselves all the more untainted by them, and observe
the TRADITIONS of the FATHERS, and chiefly the holy faith in our Lord
Jesus Christ, which you have learned from the SCRIPTURE, AND of which
you have often been put in mind BY ME"
   Vita S. Antoni 89

AUGUSTINE

"For in the Catholic Church, not to speak of the purest wisdom, to the
knowledge of which a few spiritual men attain in this life, so as to
know it, in the scantiest measure, indeed, becuase they are but men,
still without any uncertainty...The consent of peoples and nations
keep me in Church, so does her authority, inaugerated by miracles,
nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The
SUCCESSION of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the
APOSTLE PETER, to whom the Lord, after his resurrection, gave it in
charge to feed his sheep, down to the present EPISCOPATE...The epistle
begins thus:--'Manicheus, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the
providence of God the Father. These are the wholesome words from the
perennial and living fountain.' Now, if you please, patiently give
heed to my inquiry. I do not beleive Manichues to be an apostle of
Christ. Do not, I beg you, be enraged and begin to curse. For you know
that it is my rule to beleive none of your statements without
consideration. Therefore I ask, who is this Manicheus? You will reply,
An Apostle of Christ. I do not beleive it. Now you are at a loss what
to say or do; for you promised to give knowledge of truth, and here
you are forcing me to beleive what I have no knowledge of. Perhaps you
will read the gospel to me, and will attempt to find there a testimony
to Manicheus. But should you meet with a person not yet beleiving in
the gospel, how would you reply to him were he to say, I do not
beleive? For MY PART, I should NOT BELEIVE the gospel except moved by
the authority of the Catholic Church. So when those  on whose
authority I have consented to beleive in the gospel tell me not to
beleive in Manicheus, how can I BUT CONSENT?"
   C. Epis Mani 5,6

"Wherever this tradition comes from, we must believe that the Church
has not believed in vain, even though the express authority of the
canonical scriptures is not brought forward for it"
   Letter 164 to Evodius of Uzalis

"To be sure, although on this matter, we cannot quote a clear example
taken from the canonical Scriptures, at any rate, on this question, we
are following the true thought of Scriptures when we observe what has
appeared good to the universal Church which the authority of these
same Scriptures recommends to you"
   C. Cresconius I:33

"It is obvious; the faith allows it; the Catholic Church approves; it
is true"
   Sermon 117:6

"If therefore, I am going to beleive things I do not know about, why
should I not believe those things which are accepted by the common
consent of learned and unlearned alike and are established by most
weighty authority of all peoples?"
   C. Letter called Fundamentals 14:18

"Will you, then, so love your error, into which you have fallen
through adolescent overconfidence and human weakness, that you will
seperate yourself from these leaders of Catholic unity and truth, from
so many different parts of the world who are in agreement among
themselves on so important a question, one in which the essence of the
Christian religion involved..?"
   C. Julian 1:7,34

"The authority of our Scriptures, strenghtened by the consent of so
may nations, and confirmed by the succession of the Apostles, bishops
and councils, is against you"
   C. Faustus 8:5

"No sensible person will go contrary to reason, no Christian will
contradict the Scriptures, no lover of peace will go against the
CHURCH"
   Trinitas 4,6,10

BASIL

"Let us now investigate what are our common conceptions concerning the
Spirit, as well those which have been gathered by us from Holy
Scripture AS WELL those which have been gathered concerning it as
those which we have RECEIVED from the UNWRITTEN tradition of the
Fathers" Holy Spirit 22

"Of the beliefs and practices whether generally accepted or enjoined
which are preserved in the Church some we possess derived from written
teaching; others we have delivered to us in a mystery by the Apostles
by the tradition of the Apostles; and both of these in relation to
true religion have the same force"
   Holy Spirit 27

"The day would fail me, if I went through the mysteries of the Church
which are not in Scripture. I pass by the others, the very confession
of faith, in Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, from what written document
have we?"
   Holy Spirit 67

"While the unwritten traditions are so many and their bearing on 'the
mystery of godliness' is so important, can they refuse us a single
word which has come down to us from the Fathers;--which we found,
derived from untutotred custom, abiding in unpreverted churches;--a
word for which contributes in no small degree to the completeness of
the force of the mystery"
   Holy Spirit 67

"In answer to the objection that the doxology in the form 'with the
Spirit' has NO written authority, we maintain that if there is not
other instance of that which is unwritten, then this must not be
recieved. But if the great number of our mysteries are admitted into
our constitution without written authority, then, in company with many
others, let us recieve this one. For I HOLD IT APOSTOLIC TO ABIDE BY
THE UNWRITTEN TRADITIONS. 'I praise you,' it is said, 'that ye
remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances as I have delivered
them to you;' and 'Hold fast the traditions which ye have been taught
whether by by word, or our Epistle.' One of these traditions is the
practice which is now before us, which they who ordained from the
beginning, rooted firmly in the churches, delivering it to their
SUCCESSORS, and its use through long custom advances pace by pace with
time. If as in a court of Law, we were at a loss for documentary
evidence, but were able to bring before you a large number of
witnesses, would you not give your vote for our aquittal? I think so;
for 'at the mouth of two or three witnesses shall the matter be
established'. And if we could prove clearly to you that a long period
of time was in our favour, should we not have seemed to you to urge
you with reason that this suit ought not to be brought into court
against us? For ancient dogmas inspire a certain sense of awe,
venerable as they are with hoary antiquity"
   Holy Spirit 71

"...and I have not allowed my judgement concerning them to rest wholly
with myself, but have followed the decisions given about them by our
Fathers."
   Epis 204,6

Basil continues affirming that he would receive the Arians if they
started:

"accepting the Nicene Creed.."
   Epis 204,6

Basil Continues:

"is to be recieved without hesitation and difficulty, citing in
support of his opinion the unanimous assent of the bishops of
Macedonia and Asia"
   Eps 204,6

Again repudiating private opinion and affirming Scripture, tradition
and Church. Regarding the authority of St. Athanasius, the unanimous
consent of Bishops, and Nicean Creed, Basil writes:

"considering myself bound to follow the high authority of such a man
and of those who made the rule, and with every desire on my part to
win the reward promised peacemakers, did enroll in the lists of
communicants all who accepted that creed. The fair thing would be to
judge of me, not from one or two who do not walk uprightly in the
truth, but from the multitiude of bishops throughout the world,
connected with me by the grace of the Lord... you may learn that we
are all of one mind and of one opinion. Whoso shuns communion with me,
it cannot escape your accuracy, CUTS himself off from the whole
Church."
  Epis 204,6-7

'Not to accept the VOICE of the Fathers as being of more authority
than their OPINION deserves reproof as something filled with pride!'
   Epis to Canonicas

CYPRIAN

To Pope Cornelius

'After all this, they yet in addition, having had a false bishop
ordained for them by heretics, dare to set sail, and to carry letters
from schismatic and profane persons to the CHAIR of Peter, and the
PRINCIPLE CHURCH, whence the unity of the priesthood took its rise.
They fail to reflect that those Romans are the same as those who faith
was publicly praised by the apostle, to whom unbelief CANNOT have
access"
   Ep 59:14

CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA

Speaking of his own teachers,

'But they, safeguarding the TRUE tradition of the blessed teachin,
which comes straight from the Apostles Peter, James, John and Paul and
transmitted from father to son have come down to us with the help of
God to deposit  in us those acenstral and apostolic seeds'
  Stromata 1,11

Right after Clement repudiates the private interpretation of the
Gnostics he writes:

'For US...having grown old in the Scriptures, PRESERVING the Apostolic
and ecclesiastical correctness of doctrine, living a life according to
the Gospel, is led by the Lord to discover the proofs from the Law and
the prophets which he seeks.' ibid 7,104

COUNCIL OF NICEA I(AD 325)

'We believe in ONE HOLY CATHOLIC and APOSTOLIC ++++CHURCH++++'
   Nicene Creed

COUNCIL OF CONSTANTINOPLE II(AD 553)

'We confess that(we) hold and declare the faith given from the
beginning by the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ to the Holy
Apostles, and preached by them in the whole world; which the sacred
FATHERS CONFESSED and EXPLAINED, and HANDED down to the holy churches,
and especially(those fathers) who assembled in the four sacred Synods,
whom we follow and accept through all things and in all
things...judging as at odds with piety all things, indeed, which are
not in accord with what has been defined as RIGHT FAITH by the same
four holy Councils, we condemn and anathematize.'
  Dezinger 212

COUNCIL OF NICEA II(AD 787)

'If anyone rejects all ecclesiastical tradition either written or
not written...let him be anathema'
  Dezinger 308

CYRIL of JERUSALEM

'But in learning the Faith and in professing it, acquire and keep that
only, which is now DELIVERED TO THEE by THE CHURCH, AND which has been
built up strongly out of all the SCRIPTURES.'
   Catechetical Lectures 5,12

'Learn also diligently, and FROM THE CHURCH, WHAT ARE THE BOOKS of the
Old Testaments, and WHAT are the books of the NEW'
   Catechetical Lectures 5,33

CHRYSOSTOM

'So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold to the traditions which you
were taught, whether by word, or by our epistle of ours'. Hence it is
manifest, that they did not deliver all things by Epistle, but many
things unwritten, and in like manner both the one and the other are
worthy of credit. Therefore let us think the tradition of the Churh
also worthy of credit. It is a tradition seek no farther."
   Homilies on 2 Thess 2:15

"We may answer, that what is here written, was sufficient for those
who would attend, and that the sacred writers ever addressed
themsleves to the matter of immediate importance, whatever it might be
at that time: it was no object with them to be writers of books: in
fact, there are many things which have been delivered by UNWRITTEN
TRADITION. Now while all that is contained in this Book is worthy of
admiration, so is especially the way the Apostles have of coming down
to the wants of their hearers: a condescension suggested by the Spirit
who has so ordered it, that the subject on which they cheifly dwewll
is that pertains to Christ as man. For so it is, that while they
discourse so much about Christ, they have spoke little concerning His
Godhead: it was mostly of the manhood that they discoursed, and of the
Passion, and the Resurrection, and the Ascencion."
   Homilies on Acts 1,1

"Not in vain did the Apostles order that remembrance should be made of
the dead in the dreadful mysteries" Hom Phil 3,4

EPIPHANIUS OF SALAMIS

'But for all the divine words, there is no need of allegory to grasp
the meaning; what is necessary is study and understanding to know the
MEANING of each statement. We must have recourse to TRADITION, for all
cannot be received from the divine Scriptures. That is why the holy
Apostles handed down certain things in writings but others by
TRADITIONS. As Paul said:" Just as I handed them on to you." '
   Panarion 61,6

GREGORY of NAZIANZUS

"My sheep hear my voice, which I heard from the oracles of God, which
I have been taught by the Holy FATHERS, which I have taught alike on
all occasions, not conforming myself to the opportune, and which I
will never cease to teach; in which I was born, and in which I will
depart"
   Orat 33,15

"I desire to learn what is this fashion of innovation in things
concerning the Church..But since our faith has been proclaimed, both
in writing and without writing, here and in distant parts, in times of
danger and of safety, how comes it that some make such attempts, and
that others keep silence?"
   Epis 101

GREGORY of NYSSA

"It suffices for proof of our statement that we have a tradition
coming down from the Fathers, an inheritance as it were, by succession
from the Apostles through the saints who came after them."
   Eunomius

"...I say, that the Church teaches this in plain langauge, that the
Only-begotten is essentially God, very God of the essence of the very
God, how OUGHT one who OPPOSES her DECISIONS to overthrow the
preconceived opinion?"
   C. Eunomius 4,6

"They, on the other hand, who change their doctrines to this novelty,
would need the support of their arguments in abundance, if they were
to bring over to their views, not men light as dust, and unstable, but
MEN of weight and steadiness: but so long as their statement is
advanced without being established, and without being proved, who is
so foolish ad so brutish as to account the teaching of the evangelists
and apostles, AND of those who successively shone like lights in the
churches, of less force than this undemonstrated nonsense"
   C. Eunomius 4,6

HILARY OF POITIERS

'It behooves us not to withdraw from the CREED which we have
received...nor to back off from the faith which we have recieved from
through the prophets ... or to back-slide from the Gospels. Once laid
down, it continues even to this day through the TRADITION of the
FATHERS'
   Ex. Oper. Hist. Fragment 7,3

HIPPOLYTUS OF ROME

'It is NOT by drawing on the Holy Scriptures NOR BY GUARDING the
TRADITION of some holy person that the HERETICS have formulated these
doctrines.'
   Refutation of All Heresies 1,Preface

IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

'If I do not find it in the ancient Scriptures(OT), I will not beleive
the Gospel; on my saying to them, It is written, they answered me,
That remains to be proved. But to me Jesus Christ is in the place of
all that is ancient: His cross, and death and resurrection, and the
FAITH which is by Him are undefiled monuments of antiquity..'
  Epis Philadelphians 8,2

'Follow the bishop, all of you, as Jesus Christ follows his Father,
and the presbterium as the Apostles. As for the deacons, respect them
as the Law of God. Let no one do anything with reference to the Church
without the bishop. Only that Eucharist may be regarded as legitimate
which is celebrated with the bishop or his delegate presiding. Where
the bishop is, there let the community be, just as where Jesus Christ
is, there is the Catholic Church'
   Epis Symyrnaens 8

IRENAEUS(The Father of Tradition)

'The apostles at that time FIRST PREACHED the Gospel but later by the
will of God, they delivered it to us in the Scriptures, that it might
be the foundation and pillar of our faith'
   Against Heresies 3,1

'Since, therefore, the TRADITION from the apostles DOES thus EXIST in
the Church, and is PERMAMENT AMONG US, let us revert to the Scriptural
proof furnished by those apostles who did also write the Gospel, in
which they recorded the doctrine regarding God, pointing out that our
Lord Jesus Christ is the truth, and that no lie is in Him'
AH 3,5,1

"Through none others know we the disposition of our salvation, than
those through whom the gospel came to us, first heralding it, then by
the will of God delivering to us the Scriptures, which were to be the
foundation and pillar of our faith...But when, the heretics are
Scriptures,as if they were wrong, and unauthoritative, and were
variable, and the truth could not be extracted from them by those who
were ignorant of tradition...And when we challenge them in turn what
that tradition, which is from the Apostles, which is guarded by the
succession of elders in the churches, they oppose themselves to
Tradition, saying that they are wiser, not only than those elders, but
even than the Apostles. The Tradition of the Apostles, manifested 'on
the contrary' in the whole world, is open in every Church to all who
see the truth...And, since it is a long matter in a work like this to
enumerate these successions, we will confute them by pointing to the
Tradition of that greatest and most ancient and universally known
Church, founded and constituted at Rome by the two most glorious
Apostles, Peter and Paul, a tradition which she has had and a faith
which she proclaims to all men from those Apostles'
   AH 3,1-3

For Irenaeus tradition included three things

1)the faith that was handed on-oral or in writing

'For how should it be if the apostles themselves had not left us their
writings? Would it not be necessary to follow the course of the
tradition which they handed down to those whom they did commit the
Churches?'
   AH 3,4:1

2)a living authority

"Wherefore it is incumbent to obey the presbyters who are in the
Church...those who, together with the succession of the episcopate,
have recieved the certain gift of truth..."
   AH 26:2

3)transmission and preservation by succession.

"In this order, and by this succession, the ecclesiastical tradition
from the apostles, and the preaching of the truth, have come down to
us. And this is MOST abundant proof that there is one and the same
vivifying faith, which has been preserved in the Church from the
Apostles until now, and handed in truth"
   AH 3,3:3

"Then I have pointed out the truth, and shown the preaching of the
Church, which the prophets proclaimed(as I have already demonstrated),
but which Christ brought to perfection, and the apostles have handed
down , from which the Church, recieving [these truths], and throughout
all the world alone preserving them in their integrity, has
transmitted them to her sons. Then also-having disposed of all
questions which the heretics propose to us, and having explained the
doctrine of the apostles, and clearly set forth many of those things
which were said and done by the Lord in parables--I shall endeavor, in
this fifth book of the entire work which treats of the exposure and
refutation of knowledge falsely so called, to exhibit proofs from the
rest of the Lord's doctrine and apostolic epistles; [thus] complying
with demand, as thou didst request of me(since indeed I have been
assigned a place in ministry of the word); and, labouring by every
means...and convert them to the Church of God...that they may preserve
stedfast the faith which they have recieved, guarded by the Church in
its integrity, in order that they be in no way preverted by those who
endeavor to teach them false doctrine..."
   AH V Preface

"Now all these [heretics] are of much later date than the bishops to
whom the apostles committed to the Churches; which fact I have in the
third book taken all pains to demonstrate. It follows, then, as a
matter of course, that these aforementioned, since they are blind to
the truth,and deviate from the [right] way, will walk in various
roads; and therefore the footsteps of their doctrine are scattered
here and there without agreement or connection. But the path of those
belonging to the Church circumscribes the whole world, as possessing
the sure tradition of the Apostles, and gives unto us to see that the
faith of all is one and the same ....And undoubtily the preaching of
the Church is true and stedfast, in which one and the same way of
salvation is shown throughtout the whole world...For the Church
preaches the truth everywhere..."
   AH V 20,1

"Those, therefore, who desert the preaching of the Church, call in
question the knowledge of the holy presbyters....It behoves us,
therefore, to avoid their doctrines, and take careful heed lest we
suffer any injury from them; but to flee to the Church, and be brought
up in her bosom, and be nourished with the Lord's Scriptures."
   AH V 20,2

Episcopal Succession

"Wherefore it is incumbent to obey the presbyters who are in the
Church, those who as I have shown, possess succession from the
apostles; those who, together with the succession of bishops, have
recieved the CERTAIN GIFT of TRUTH, according to the good pleasure of
the Father. But [it is also uncumbent] to hold in SUSPICION others who
DEPART from the primitive succession of the succession, and assemble
themselves....But those who cleave asunder, and separate the unity of
the Church, [shall] recieve from God the same punishments as Jeroboam
did"
  AH 4,26:2

"Heretics assent neither to Scripture nor to Tradition"
   AH 3,2,1

JEROME

'Do you demand Scripture proof? You may find it in Acts of the
Apostles. And even if it did NOT REST on the authority of the
Scripture the CONSENSUS of the WHOLE WORLD in this respect would have
the force of COMMAND...'
   C. Dialogue Luciferians 8

'And let them not flatter you themselves if they think they have
Scripture authority sinc the devil himself has quoted Scripture
texts...we could all, while preserving in the letter of Scripture,
read into it some novel doctrine'
   ibid 28

JOHN DAMASCUS

'So, then in expectation of His coming we worship toward the East. But
this tradition of the apostles is unwritten. For much that has been
handed down to us by tradition is unwritten'
  Orthodox Faith 4,12,16

'Moreover that the Apostles handed down much that was unwritten, Paul,
the Apostle of the Gentiles, tells us in these words: "Therefore,
brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have been taught
of us, whether by word or epistle" And to the Corinthians he writes,
"Now I praise your brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and
keep the traditions as I have delivered them to you.'
  Orthodox Faith 4,16

'He who does not beleive according to the tradition of the Catholic
Church is an unbeleiver'
  C. Nestorians

MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR

'I have no private opinion, but only agree with the Catholic Church'
   Quoted from 'From the Housetops' Vol 9, No.2 Serial 23 , p28

ORIGEN

"The Church's preaching has been handed down through an orderly
succession from the Apostles and remains in the Church until the
present. That alone is to be believed as the truth which in no way
departs from ecclesiastical and apostolic tradition"
  First Principles 1,2

TERTULLIAN

"We do not take our scriptural teaching from the parables but we
interpret the parables according to our TEACHING"
   Purity 9,1

'Let them show the origins of their churches, let them unroll the list
of their bishops,(showing) through a succession coming down from the
very beginning that their first bishop had his authority and
predecessor someone from among the number of Apostles or apostolic men
and, further, that he did not stray from the Apostles. In this way the
apostolic churches present their earliest records. The church of
Smyrna, for example, records that Polycarp was named by John; the
Romans, that Clement was ordained by Peter. In just the same way, the
other churches show who were made bishops by the Apostles and who
transmitted the apostolic seed to them. Let the heretics invent
something like that'
   Prescr Ag Heretics 32

THEODORET OF CYRUS

'This teaching has been handed down to us not only by the Apostles and
prophets but also by those who have INTERPRETED their writings,
Ignatius, Eustathius, Athanasius, Basil, Gregory...and other lights of
the world and before them, by the HOLY FATHERS gathered at Nicea whose
confession of faith we have kept intact, as the inheritance from a
Father, while those who dare to VIOLATE THEIR TEACHINGS, we call
corrupt and enemies of truth'
   Epis 89

THEODOSIUS, says Socrates

'..This being an anxious matter to Nectarius, Sicinnius advised him to
avoid all dialectic contests, and to APPEAL to the STATEMENTS of THE
ANCIENTS, and to put the question to the heresiarchs from the Emperor
whether they made any account of the doctors who belonged to the
Church before the division or came to issue with them as aliens from
Christianity'
   Hist 5,10

VINCENT OF LERINS

Vincent of Lerins remarks(as many of the Fathers do) that the
first thing the heretic says to affirm his position is "It is
written..."!

'When anyone asks one of these heretics who presents arguments: Where
are the proofs of your teacing that I should leave behind the
world-wide and ancient faith of the Catholic Church? He will jump in
before you have finished with the question: "It is written" He follows
up immediately with thousands of texts and examples...'
   Commonit 1,26

"Here perhaps, someone may ask: Since the canon of the Scripture is
complete and more than sufficient in itself, why is it necessary to
add to it the authority of ecclesiastical interpretation? As a matter
of fact, [we must answer] Holy Scripture, because of its depth, is not
universally accepted in one and the same sense. The same text is
interpreted different by different people, so that one may almost gain
the impression that it can yield as many different meanings as there
are men. Novatian, for example, expounds a passage in one way;
Sabellius, in another; Donatus, in another. Arius, and Eunomius, and
Macedonius read it differently; so do Photinus, Apollinaris, and
Priscillian; in another way, Jovian, Pelagius, and Caelestius; finally
still another way, Nestorius. Thus, becuase of the great distortions
caused by various erros, it is, indeed, necessary that the trend of
the interpretation of the prophetic and apostolic writings be directed
in accordance with the rule of the ecclesiastical and Catholic
meaning"
   Comm 2


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