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CATHEDRA PETRI:
THE TITLES AND PREROGATIVES
oF
St, Jeter, and of Mis See and Successors,
AS DESCRIBED BY
THE EARLY FATHERS, ECCLESIASTICAL WRITERS, AND
COUNCILS OF THE CHURCH.
BY
CHARLES F. B. ALLNATT.
“ Ego interim clamito: Si quis Cathedree Petri jungitur, meus est.”
Sr. Jerome (Epist. xvi.)
“ Pagite, o miseri, execranda Novati
Schismata, Catholicis reddite vos populis.
Una fides vigeat, prisco quae c
Quam tenet Cathedra Pet
Preventis (Hymn, in S. Hippolyt.)
dita templo est,
Second Eition, Revise and much Enlarger.
LONDON: BURNS & OATES, 17 PORTMAN STREET.
DUBLIN: GILL & SONS, SACKVILLE STREET,
1879. THE object of the following work is to present a short summary or
abstract of the Patristic evidence regarding the Titles and Prerogatives
ascribed to St. Peter, and to his See and Successors, in the first ages
of the Church,
The original text—Greek or Latin—of the more important passages
has been appended to each extract,
In the case of those cited from authors of the first five centuries,
the translation generally, but not invariably, adopted is the very literal
and accurate one of the late Dr, Waterworth, to whose valuable works,
The Faith of Catholics, vols, i, and ii,, and The Fathers on St. Peter,
&c., the reader may be referred for the context of many of the shorter
extracts given in this work. As regards later authorities, the literal
translations furnished by the late Dr. Rock, and other English authors,
have been freely adopted.
To this new and much enlarged Edition has been prefixed a List of
the principal authors quoted, with brief Notices of the best editions of
their works, &c. In the General Council of Ephesus, 4.p. 431, the Legate Philip
thus addressed the assembled Father:
“Ir IS DOUBTFUL TO NONE, YEA RATHER IT HAS BEEN KNOWN TO
ALL AGES, THAT THE HOLY AND MOST BLESSED PETER, THE PRINCE
AND HEAD OF THE APOSTLES, THE PILLAR OF THE FAITH, THE
FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, RECEIVED THE KEYS oF
THE KINGDOM FROM OUR LorD JEsus CHRIST, THE SAVIOUR AND
REDEEMER OF THE HUMAN RACE ; AND TO HIM WAS GIVEN POWER TO
BIND AND TO LOOSE; WHO EVEN UNTIL NOW, AND ALWAYS, BOTH
LIVES AND JUDGES IN His SUCCESSORS” (@iduamog setoBureges xes
aoeqBeurns Tg anoorodinns xabedgas emer Oude apgiBorov ors, wadrov
de cao ros cuwaw eyvastn, oF1 6 keyg nor managuraros Tlergos, 6 Easyos
nas HEQAAn Tov amOOrOAwH, & mim Tg clorEWs, 6 OrwEriog TH xecboruRNs
ExxAnoiag, como rov xugiov Hyer “Ino Xuorv . . . ras xdeig eng Bucireras
sbeLaro, xe aury dedorar Eovere rov deouenw nou Duew &magrias: borg bus
rou wy au ast ev roig obra dradoxors neu Cn, xo dinate Concil. Eph.
Act. iii. tom. i, Hardouin, Paris, 1715, p. 1477; Labbe, tom. iii.
P. 625).
Benni. The Tradition of The Syriac Church of Antioch: Concerning The Primacy and The Prerogatives of St. Peter and of His Successors The Roman Pontiffs. 1871.
