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Introduction, by the American Editor.
[2177] Ab excessu.
[2178] Disputandam. Another reading has deputandam, i.e., “to attribute.”
[2179] Posteritatem.
[2180] Nulla constantia de conscientia, “no conscientious ground of confidence” (Dodgson).
[2181] Origines, “the originals” (Dodgson).
[2182] Ille. A touch of irony occurs in the phrase “primus ille episcopus.”
[2183] Deferunt.
[2184] Fastos.
[2185] [Linus and Cletus must have died or been martyred, therefore, almost as soon as appointed. Our author had seen these registers, no doubt.]
[2186] Confingant.
[2187] Probabuntur. Another reading is provocabuntur, “will be challenged.” [Not to one particular See, but to all the Apostolic churches: Quod ubique.]
[2188] Pro consanguinitate doctrinæ.
[2189] That is, the succession of bishops from the apostles, and the identity of doctrine with the apostolic.
[2190] Sacramenti.
[2191] Traducentur.
[2192] Semina sumpsisse.
[2194] Comp. Tertull. De Resur. Carnis, xxxvi.
[2197] Æque tangit.
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