 | Robert Montgomery - 1842 - 662 pages
...holy books. "* Hierom saith.f " Of those things, which without the authorities and testimonies of the Scripture, men invent of their own heads as from apostolical...tradition, they are smitten with the sword of God." Theophilus Alexander, whom Hierom hath translated, calls Scripture more than on^eJ the rule, and the... | |
 | Episcopal Church. House of Bishops - 1845 - 290 pages
...toward the middle of it, St. Cyprian being opposed by an argument from tradition, demands, " Whence have you that tradition ? Comes it from the authority of...mass of authorities to the same effect, these few * It has been held very important, to procnre the testimony of so early a father as Ireneeus to the... | |
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the divine balance, for the weighing of doctrine ;" and he says, " All things which appertain to life and doctrine, are plainly set down in Scripture." To go no further than to the next century, we there find in St. Jerome : " Of those things which without... 