The Claims of the Roman See to Supremacy, Disproved by an Examination of the Testimony of Catholic Antiquity (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869. Excerpt: ... 8. S. Cyril of Jerusalem. Our next witness is S. Cyril the Bp. of Jerusalem who was raised to that See in the year 340, and whose Catechetical Lectures are amongst the most precious remains of Christian Antiquity. The first and most important passage adduced from his writings, is the following, which occurs in his xi. Catechetical Lecture, and is thus translated by Dr. Kenrick in his work on the " Primacy of the Apostolic See" (p. 43. Ed. 3rd). "All of them remaining silent, for the doctrine was beyond the reach of man, Peter the Prince of the Apostles and the Supreme Herald of the Church, not following his own inventions, nor persuaded by human reasoning, but enlightened in his mind by the Father, says to Him 'Thou art Christ' not simply this, but the 'Son of the living God.'" The words underlined are in the Original IIsTpos 6 7rparo(rr-Tj;s raiv onTOVTotiCov, xou TtK exxJwrias xopupdtos xripv ---which properly signify "Peter the foremost or foreman of the Apostles, and the leading preacher of the Church," as Bp. Hopkins of Vermont had translated them. The Romanist translation he terms "a case of strong amplification." But what renders the passage utterly useless to support the cause for which it is brought forward, is the fact that S. Cyril elsewhere styles both S. Peter and S. Paul, equally, the presidents of the Church--"TXhpos xai Ilat/Aos napayevof&evoi, 61 Tijs ixxhrtaiaq npoaTonm, which the Latin Translator properly enough renders " Ecclesise Praesules," Presidents, whereas in the former passage where S. Peter alone is styled npaToardrm, a term of much weaker signification, he makes Princeps to be its equivalent, in which he has been followed by the American Controversialist, Dr. Kenrick, as we have seen. The latter passage where the t...