New Covenant only for Jews?

[Johann]

Sooooo, did you have point to make here?
All you did was paste part of the Bread of Life Discourse - which doesn't address ANY of the questions I asked back in post #680.

Not here to argue, you win.

 

[Philip James]

Your own source does not describe it as a "feast".

Why do you?

My source? I don't recall citing that document.(which is well written)

But hey, if you want citations, a good place to start is the Catechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText


"1244 First Holy Communion. Having become a child of God clothed with the wedding garment, the neophyte is admitted "to the marriage supper of the Lamb"44 and receives the food of the new life, the body and blood of Christ."


1329 The Lord's Supper, because of its connection with the supper which the Lord took with his disciples on the eve of his Passion and because it anticipates the wedding feast of the Lamb in the heavenly Jerusalem.141

1419 Having passed from this world to the Father, Christ gives us in the Eucharist the pledge of glory with him. Participation in the Holy Sacrifice identifies us with his Heart, sustains our strength along the pilgrimage of this life, makes us long for eternal life, and unites us even now to the Church in heaven, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and all the saints.

(bolding by me)

I recommend reading that entire section on the sacraments to get some idea of what the Church lives every day...

Pax et Bonum

 

[BreadOfLife]

Heh...heh...you're the one who's running.

Again.
Unable to answer a simple question.
If Bellarmine didn't author those claims, who did?
Tell us.
Don't be a coward.
Waiting.

The fact that YOU keep demanding “verbatim quotes” whikl REFUSING to provide any yourself shows your utter hypocrisy.

NOT very bright, eh, son?

 

[BreadOfLife]

You're right; I should have called it the heretical archive trove.

Satisfied now?

So tell us who authored that heresy.

Which no pope has ever renounced.

Don't be a coward.

Waiting.

I already told you back in post #908.
But in the depths pf your ignorance you failed to retain it.

From that post:
"This fairy tale was originally concocted by the anti-Catholic PROTESTANT work, Letters in the Roman Catholic Controversy by William Brownlee, of the 'Collegiate Protestant Reformed Dutch Church”.

You're as big a LIAR as your anti-Catholic Protestant forbearers . . .

 

[BreadOfLife]

You said you were going to hunt down the document.

Happy hunting.

And we're waiting.

Ummmm, that came with a caveat, my dim-witted friend:

From post #913:
"On post #888 – with regard to the false quote from Bellarmine - YOU stated emphatically:
“EVERY POPE has therefore believed it.”
Soooooso, why don’t YOU put your money where your mouth is and give me the VERBSATIM QUITES from EVERY Pope?"

STILL waiting.
Don't be a coward . . .

 

[Brakelite]

That’s quite a cut-and-paste job.

UNFORTUNATELY, like all of your other recent posts – it is simply another DODGE from having to explain your asinine claim that the Catholic Church translated the Bible in Latin ONLY in Latin so “nobody could read it.”

Let me know when you’re ready to substantiate THAT little fairy tale . . .

Well, you are correct, I did make the claim. But you haven't proved me wrong yet either, your post concerning Caedmon notwithstanding. I may be wrong. Perhaps there are examples where some obscure Catholic scholar translated the Latin Bible into the common language. But I don't know of any. You suggested Caedmon. I explained how you were incorrect. You haven't offered an alternative. So my original post and claim still stands unchallenged. And I suggest you take care in offering suggestions, because not all churches, schools, Bible colleges etc were Catholic. For example. It is reported that the schools of Patrick, and later Columba, and their hundreds of students, produced hundreds of copies of the scriptures, with Columba himself copying 300 new testaments himself. How many more his students, and those of the generations following? This was the Celtic church of Iona and Derry in Ireland, now Londonderry. This before the 6th century. And the original manuscripts they were translating from were Itala, not Latin. Those Itala Bibles did not originate with Rome, but from the those who escaped Jerusalem to Antioch, where Lucian later made a great name for himself, being hated by Jerome because he resisted Rome's doctrinal innovations and Jerome's Latin Bible that was infused with error.
So. Before Tyndale and before Wickliffe and before Luther, and other than the Albigensisn and Waldensian biblicists and Celtic scholars, who in the Catholic quarter of Christendom produced a Bible in the language of the people?

 

[Adventageous]

I did several searches on Google, with and without quotation marks, searched Vatican documents, and...

De Conciliorum Auctoriatate does not exist!

coventee!

Listen to Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, SJ (Jesuit), speaking (writing) about the “pope”:

In English: “All names which in the scriptures are applied to Christ, by virtue of which it is established that he is over the church, all the same names are applied to the Pope.” [Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, S.J. (Jesuit); Disputationes de Controversiis Christianae Fidei adversus hujus temporis Haereticos; Tom. 2, “Controversia Prima, De Conciliorum Auctoritate), Caput. 17, (1628 ed.) Vol. 1, pp. 266-translated] - https://www.documentacatholicaomnia...s_Robertus,_Opera_Omnia_(Vol_01_1856),_LT.pdf​

In Latin: “Secundo probatur ratione, in Scripturis fundata; nam omnia nomina, quae in Scripturis tribuuntur Christo, unde constat eum esse supra Ecclesiam, eadem omnia tribuuntur Pontifici.” - http://cdigital.dgb.uanl.mx/la/1080015572_C/1080015573_T2/1080015573_21.pdf

'Disputationes de Controversiis Christianae" also mentioned in this book - https://www.documentacatholicaomnia...Sedes,_Acta_Apostolicae_Sedis_Vol_023,_LT.pdf

The link is directly provided.

The page is given as an image here:




The surrounding context is given here:

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archive.org

 

[covenantee]

Listen to Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, SJ (Jesuit), speaking (writing) about the “pope”:

Thanks and blessings, brother.

 

[covenantee]

My source? I don't recall citing that document.(which is well written)

But hey, if you want citations, a good place to start is the Catechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText


"1244 First Holy Communion. Having become a child of God clothed with the wedding garment, the neophyte is admitted "to the marriage supper of the Lamb"44 and receives the food of the new life, the body and blood of Christ."


1329 The Lord's Supper, because of its connection with the supper which the Lord took with his disciples on the eve of his Passion and because it anticipates the wedding feast of the Lamb in the heavenly Jerusalem.141

1419 Having passed from this world to the Father, Christ gives us in the Eucharist the pledge of glory with him. Participation in the Holy Sacrifice identifies us with his Heart, sustains our strength along the pilgrimage of this life, makes us long for eternal life, and unites us even now to the Church in heaven, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and all the saints.

(bolding by me)

I recommend reading that entire section on the sacraments to get some idea of what the Church lives every day...

Pax et Bonum

Unsurprisingly, not an iota of supporting Scripture.

Only the opinions of delusional eisegesis and malinterpretation.

Described by Peter in actual Scripture 2 Peter 1:20 as "private interpretation".

 

[covenantee]

Ummmm, that came with a caveat, my dim-witted friend:

From post #913:
"On post #888 – with regard to the false quote from Bellarmine - YOU stated emphatically:
“EVERY POPE has therefore believed it.”
Soooooso, why don’t YOU put your money where your mouth is and give me the VERBSATIM QUITES from EVERY Pope?"

STILL waiting.
Don't be a coward . . .

Re. post 947:

"False quote", eh?

Ever heard the expression "Hoisted by his own petard"?

Now you have.

That would be you.

Thanks for the entertainment.

 

[Illuminator]

Nice documentation, but it still does not mean the Pope is God. His authority is limited to Catholics, not to you, not to the world, but to Catholics and nobody else pays attention to him anyway.
Your first line: " by virtue of which it is established that he is over the church" does not mean the Pope is God. That would be blasphemous. Made-in-America cults have a bad habit of twisting and distorting old meaningless documents, and why are they (JW, SDA etc.) the only ones doing it? Get a life.

 

[Brakelite]

nice documentation, but it still does not mean the Pope is God.

Ummm, no kidding.

His authority is limited to Catholics, not to you, not to the world, but to Catholics.

Totally true. But then there's this...

"The [Catholic] Church has the right to require that the Catholic religion shall be the ONLY religion of the State, to the exclusion of all others... Cursed be those who assert liberty of conscience and of worship, and such that maintain that the church may not employ force." ~Pope Pius ix (1846-1878).

So force the state to make everyone Catholic, then be god over everyone.

 

[Illuminator]

There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.
Robert Bellarmine

 

[Philip James]

Unsurprisingly, not an iota of supporting Scripture.

Only the opinions of delusional eisegesis and malinterpretation.

Described by Peter in actual Scripture 2 Peter 1:20 as "private interpretation".

Just all the scripture I already gave you of course..

I see, so your private interpretations are valid and the public, 2000 year old teachings of the apostolic Church are somehow at odds with Peter?

You actually find people who buy that nonsense?



Then he said to his servants, 'The feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy to come.

Go out, therefore, into the main roads and invite to the feast whomever you find.'

All are welcome to come to the wedding Feast of the Lamb of God!

Pax et Bonum

 

[Illuminator]

Ummm, no kidding.

Totally true. But then there's this...

"The [Catholic] Church has the right to require that the Catholic religion shall be the ONLY religion of the State, to the exclusion of all others... Cursed be those who assert liberty of conscience and of worship, and such that maintain that the church may not employ force." ~Pope Pius ix (1846-1878).

So force the state to make everyone Catholic, then be god over everyone.

It looks like another one of many SDA fabrications. Have you nothing better to do but preach hatred towards Catholics?

Pius XI issued numerous encyclicals, including Quadragesimo anno on the 40th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's groundbreaking social encyclical Rerum novarum, highlighting the capitalistic greed of international finance, the dangers of socialism/communism, and social justice issues, and Quas primas, establishing the feast of Christ the King in response to anti-clericalism...

To establish or maintain the position of the Catholic Church, Pius XI concluded a record number of concordats, including the Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany, whose betrayals of which he condemned four years later in the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge ("With Burning Concern"). During his pontificate, the longstanding hostility with the Italian government over the status of the papacy and the Church in Italy was successfully resolved in the Lateran Treaty of 1929. He was unable to stop the persecution of the Church and the killing of clergy in Mexico, Spain and the Soviet Union.

Pope Pius XI - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

There's 6 encyclicals to draw from. My favorite is Mit brennender Sorge. Unfortunately, context is your enemy.

Mit brennender Sorge"With deep anxiety") On the Church and the German Reich is an encyclical of Pope Pius XI, issued during the Nazi era on 10 March 1937 (but bearing a date of Passion Sunday, 14 March).[1] Written in German, not the usual Latin, it was smuggled into Germany for fear of censorship and was read from the pulpits of all German Catholic churches on one of the Church's busiest Sundays, Palm Sunday (21 March that year).[2][3]

The encyclical condemned breaches of the 1933 Reichskonkordat agreement signed between the German Reich and the Holy See.[4] It condemned "pantheistic confusion", "neopaganism", "the so-called myth of race and blood", and the idolizing of the State.

Mit brennender Sorge - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

12. If race or people, whether the State or a particular form thereof, whether the representatives of State power, or other fundamental elements of human society have in the natural order an essential and respectable place, yet he who uproots them from this scale of earthly values by elevating them to the supreme norm of everything, Even from religious values, and, divinizing them with idolatrous worship, perverts and falsifies the order created and imposed by God, is far from true faith and a conception of life according to it.​

Mit brennender Sorge

 

[Adventageous]

Nice documentation, but it still does not mean the Pope is God. His authority is limited to Catholics, not to you, not to the world, but to Catholics and nobody else pays attention to him anyway.
Your first line: " by virtue of which it is established that he is over the church" does not mean the Pope is God. That would be blasphemous. Made-in-America cults have a bad habit of twisting and distorting old meaningless documents, and why are they (JW, SDA etc.) the only ones doing it? Get a life.

I try my best to authenitcally document in proper context anything which is given. I have had to learn to make sure I always source my materials correctly (as best to my knowledge, from primary and original sources (even original language sources where possible). It takes time to be sure, but always better to do it that way, then be caught out in a quote that is misleading, or misidentified, misattributed, and so on. So, thank you for what you have said about the documentation.

The Pope's "authority" is not merely to the "church" (even though the present quote is specific to that), but the claim of the Magisterium of Rome, is that the "Pope" has authority over all states (political entities, whether Kings, Emperors, Presidents, &c, as the ideology teaches that the spiritual should rule over, control, the secular). To this end, the current Canon Law of Rome, clearly states that:

" … Can. 1404 The First See is judged by no one. …" [Roman Catholic Canon Law; BOOK VII PROCESSES; Part I. TRIALS IN GENERAL (Cann. 1400 – 1403); TITLE I. THE COMPETENT FORUM (Cann. 1404 - 1416)] - http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P5A.HTM​

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" … Can. 1406 §1. If the prescript of ⇒ can. 1404 is violated, the acts and decisions are considered as not to have been placed.​

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§2. In the cases mentioned in ⇒ can. 1405, the incompetence of other judges is absolute. …" [Roman Catholic Canon Law; BOOK VII PROCESSES; Part I. TRIALS IN GENERAL (Cann. 1400 – 1403); TITLE I. THE COMPETENT FORUM (Cann. 1404 - 1416)] - http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P5A.HTM​

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" … Can. 1405 §1. It is solely the right of the Roman Pontiff himself to judge in the cases mentioned in ⇒ can. 1401:​

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1/ those who hold the highest civil office of a state;​

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2/ cardinals;​

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3/ legates of the Apostolic See and, in penal cases, bishops;​

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4/ other cases which he has called to his own judgment.​

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§2. A judge cannot review an act or instrument confirmed specifically (in forma specifica) by the Roman Pontiff without his prior mandate.​

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§3. Judgment of the following is reserved to the Roman Rota:​

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1/ bishops in contentious matters, without prejudice to the prescript of ⇒ can. 1419, §2;​

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2/ an abbot primate or abbot superior of a monastic congregation and a supreme moderator of religious institutes of pontifical right;​

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3/ dioceses or other physical or juridic ecclesiastical persons which do not have a superior below the Roman Pontiff. …" [Roman Catholic Canon Law; BOOK VII PROCESSES; Part I. TRIALS IN GENERAL (Cann. 1400 – 1403); TITLE I. THE COMPETENT FORUM (Cann. 1404 - 1416)] - http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P5A.HTM​

This is confirmed by the Online Catholic Library, Encyclopedia, and by Augustine:

"...We are informed by the texts of the gospels that in this Church and in its power are two swords; namely, the spiritual and the temporal. For when the Apostles say: "Behold, here are two swords" [Lk 22:38] that is to say, in the Church, since the Apostles were speaking, the Lord did not reply that there were too many, but sufficient. Certainly the one who denies that the temporal sword is in the power of Peter has not listened well to the word of the Lord commanding: "Put up thy sword into thy scabbard" [Mt 26:52]. Both, therefore, are in the power of the Church, that is to say, the spiritual and the material sword, but the former is to be administered for the Church but the latter by the Church; the former in the hands of the priest; the latter by the hands of kings and soldiers, but at the will and sufferance of the priest. ..." [Roman Catholic Online Library, New Advent Online, Church Documents; Unam Sanctam; His Holiness Pope Boniface VIII; November 18, 1302]​

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"...Then follow some principles and conclusions concerning the spiritual and the secular power:

Under the control of the Church are two swords, that is two powers, the expression referring to the medieval theory of the two swords, the spiritual and the secular. This is substantiated by the customary reference to the swords of the Apostles at the arrest of Christ (Luke 22:38; Matthew 26:52).

Both swords are in the power of the Church; the spiritual is wielded in the Church by the hand of the clergy; the secular is to be employed for the Church by the hand of the civil authority, but under the direction of the spiritual power.

The one sword must be subordinate to the other: the earthly power must submit to the spiritual authority, as this has precedence of the secular on account of its greatness and sublimity; for the spiritual power has the right to establish and guide the secular power, and also to judge it when it does not act rightly. When, however, the earthly power goes astray, it is judged by the spiritual power; a lower spiritual power is judged by a higher, the highest spiritual power is judged by God.

This authority, although granted to man, and exercised by man, is not a human authority, but rather a Divine one, granted to Peter by Divine commission and confirmed in him and his successors. Consequently, whoever opposes this power ordained of God opposes the law of God and seems, like a Manichaean, to accept two principles.

"Now, therefore, we declare, say, determine and pronounce that for every human creature it is necessary for salvation to be subject to the authority of the Roman pontiff" (Porro subesse Romano Pontifici omni humanae creaturae declaramus, dicimus, definimus, et pronuntiamus omnino esse de necessitate salutis).

The Bull is universal in character. … In the registers, on the margin of the text of the record, the last sentence is noted as its real definition: "Declaratio quod subesse Romano Pontifici est omni humanae creaturae de necessitate salutis" (It is here stated that for salvation it is necessary that every human creature be subject to the authority of the Roman pontiff). ..." [Roman Catholic Online Encyclopedia, New Advent Online; section on Unam Sanctam]​

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"...Its chief concepts are as follows (Hergenröther-Kirsch, 4th ed., II, 593): (1) There is but one true Church, outside of which there is no salvation; but one body of Christ with one head and not two. (2) That head is Christ and His representative, the Roman pope; whoever refuses the pastoral care of Peter belongs not to the flock of Christ. (3) There are two swords (i.e., powers), the spiritual and the temporal; the first borne by the Church, the second for the Church; the first by the hand of the priest, the second by that of the king, but under the direction of the priest (ad nutum et patientiam sacerdotis). (4) Since there must be a co- ordination of members from the lowest to the highest, it follows that the spiritual power is above the temporal and has the right to instruct (or establish--instituere) the latter regarding its highest end and to judge it when it does evil; whoever resists the highest power ordained of God resists God Himself. (5) It is necessary for salvation that all men should be subject to the Roman Pontiff--"Porro subesse Romano Pontifici omni humanæ creaturæ declaramus, dicimus, definimus et pronunciamus omnino esse de necessitate salutis". ..." [Roman Catholic Online Encyclopedia, New Advent Online; Pope Boniface VIII; (BENEDETTO GAETANO)]​

 

[Adventageous]

Nice documentation, but it still does not mean the Pope is God. His authority is limited to Catholics, not to you, not to the world, but to Catholics and nobody else pays attention to him anyway.
Your first line: " by virtue of which it is established that he is over the church" does not mean the Pope is God. That would be blasphemous. Made-in-America cults have a bad habit of twisting and distorting old meaningless documents, and why are they (JW, SDA etc.) the only ones doing it? Get a life.

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Also seen in "Contra Faustum" [Augustine]; Point 77, Two Swords... "... And we find in the passage that we have quoted from the Gospel, that the words spoken by the Lord were carried into effect by His disciples. For, besides going at first without scrip or purse, and yet lacking nothing, as from the Lord's question and their answer it is plain they did, now that He speaks of buying a sword, they say, "Lo, here are two swords;" and He replied, "It is enough." Hence we find Peter with a weapon when he cut off the assailant's ear, on which occasion his spontaneous boldness was checked, because, although he had been told to take a sword, he had not been told to use it. Doubtless, it was mysterious that the Lord should require them to carry weapons, and forbid the use of them. But it was His part to give the suitable precepts, and it was their part to obey without reserve. ..." [Roman Catholic Online Fathers of the Church, New Advent Online; Contra Faustum (Augustine); Book XXII]​

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" … Can. 747 … §2. It belongs to the Church always and everywhere to announce moral principles, even about the social order, and to render judgment concerning any human affairs insofar as the fundamental rights of the human person or the salvation of souls requires it. …" [Roman Catholic Canon Law, Vatican.va; BOOK III. THE TEACHING FUNCTION OF THE CHURCH LIBER III. DE ECCLESIAE MUNERE DOCENDI]​

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"The pope's universal coercive jurisdiction... ... Moreover, the powers conferred in these regards are plenary. ... nothing is withheld. ... Further, Peter's authority is subordinated to no earthly superior. The sentences which he gives are to be forthwith ratified in heaven. They do not need the antecedent approval of any other tribunal. ... This judicial authority will even include the power to pardon sin. ... supreme power in this kingdom carries with it a supreme magisterium — authority to declare that doctrine and to prescribe a rule of faith obligatory on all. ... as subject to the authority of him who should be Christ's vicegerent on earth. .." [Online Catholic Encyclopedia, The Pope] - CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Pope​

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"... The Pope is of so great dignity and so exalted that he is not a mere man…the pope’s excellence and power are not only about heaven, terrestrial and infernal things, but he is also above angels...He is of such great dignity and power that he occupies one and the same tribunal with Christ…the Pope is as it were God on earth, sole sovereign of the faithful of Christ, chief of kings, having plenitude of power.” - Lucius Ferraris, in “Prompta Bibliotheca Canonica, Juridica, Moralis, Theologica, Ascetica, Polemica, Rubristica, Historica”, Volume V, article on “Papa, Article II”, titled “Concerning the extent of Papal dignity, authority, or dominion and infallibility“, #1, 5, 13-15, 18, published in Petit-Montrouge (Paris) by J. P. Migne, 1858 edition and Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca, 1763, Volume VI, ‘Papa II’, pp. 25-29 - http://books.google.com/books?id=VYwsAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=quasi Deus in terra&f=false

"1. Papa tantae est dignitatis et celsitudinis, ut non sit simplex homo, sed quasi Deus, et Dei vicarius

3. Papa idem est se Pater patrum

18. Deveniendo ad Papae auctoritatem, papa est quasi Deus in terra unicus Christi fidelium princeps, regum omnium rex maximus, plenitudinem potestatis continens, cui terreni simul, ac coelestis imperii gubernacula ab omnipotenti Deo credita sunt " - ​

Prompta bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica [page 1823; internal pagination]​

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"... Summary. 1. Is of so great dignity and highness, so that is not mere man, but as it were God, and the vicar of God. - 2. Pope is of such lofty and supreme dignity that, properly speaking, is not in the positions of dignity, but rather upon the very summit of dignities is set. - 3. The Pope is the Father of fathers.​

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12. Is likewise the divine monarch, and supreme emperor, and king of kings. - 13. Hence the Pope is crowned with a triple crown as king of heaven, earth and under the earth. - 14. Indeed, of the Roman Pontiff and the power of the excellence of that, not only to heavenly things, earthly and infernal, but also over the angels, of which he himself is the greater.​

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16. Is of so great dignity and power, that he forms one and the same tribunal with Christ.​

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18. When we come to the authority of the Pope, the Pope is as it were God on earth, beings of Christ 's the prince, the king of the greatest of all the kings, containing the fullness of power, to whom both the earthly and the government of the empire from the coelstis omniptente been committed to God.​

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23. From this point I to commonly received ideas he teaches, that Popes should have jurisdiction of both of the sword, the spiritual, of course, and the temporal.​

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30. Is of so great authority and power, so that it can even divine laws to modify, declare, or interpret, as Art. 31. - [Empty]​

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1. Is of so great dignity and highness, that there may be mere man, but the vicar of God as if God ...​

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3. Hence the Pope is the same as the Father of fathers, as is noted to the Gloss. It is commonly received in the Foreword

4. Clement., For. The Pope.​

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13. Hence the Pope is crowned with three crowns, as if the King of heaven and earth, and under the earth;​

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14. Indeed, the excellence of the Roman Pontiff and the power of that, not only to heavenly things, earthly and infernal, but also over the angels, of which he himself is the greater;​

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16. For so great is the dignity and power, that he forms one and the same tribunal with Christ,​

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18. When we come, then, to the authority of the Pope; the Pope is God on earth, as it were, one of Christ 's the prince, the king of the greatest of all the kings, containing the fullness of power, to whom the earthly and heavenly at the same time the helm of the empire by the Almighty God were committed to, insofar as it is clearly established in the can. ..."​

 

[Adventageous]

Nice documentation, but it still does not mean the Pope is God. His authority is limited to Catholics, not to you, not to the world, but to Catholics and nobody else pays attention to him anyway.
Your first line: " by virtue of which it is established that he is over the church" does not mean the Pope is God. That would be blasphemous. Made-in-America cults have a bad habit of twisting and distorting old meaningless documents, and why are they (JW, SDA etc.) the only ones doing it? Get a life.

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In Latin:​

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“...ARTICULUS II. Quoad ea quae concernunt Papae dignitatem, autoritatem seu potestatem, et infallibilitatem.​

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Summarium. 1. Papa tantae est dignitatis et celsitudinis, ut non sit simplex homo, sed quasi Deus, et Dei Vicarius. – 2. Papa adeo summae et supremae dignitatis est, ut proprie loquendo non sit in dignitate constitutus, sed potius in ipso culmine dignitatum positus. – 3. Papa idem est ac Pater patrum. – 4. Et hoc nomine uti potest solus Summus Pontifex. – 5. Papa appellatur Sanctissimus, et quare? – 6. Neque Sanctissimi appellari possunt imperatores et reges? – 7. Merito solus Papa appellatur nomine Sanctissimi, et quare? – 8. Papa prae excellentia suae supremae dignitatis vocantur Episcopus Episcoporum. – 9. Item appellatur Ordinarius Ordinariorum. – 10. Item Episcopus universalis Ecclesiae. – 11. Item Episcopus seu dioecesanus totius orbis. – 12. Item divinus monarcha, ac imperator supremus et rex regum. – 13. Hinc Papa triplici corona coronatur tanquam rex coeli, terrae et infernorum. – 14. Imo Romani Pontificis excellentia et potestas, nedum est circa coelestia, terrestria et infernalia, sed etiam super angelos, quorum ipse maior est. – 15. Ita ut si foret possibile, quod Angeli errarent in fide, vel contra fidem sentirent, per Papam iudicari et excommunicari possent. – 16. Papa tantae est dignitatis et potestatis, ut faciat unum et idem tribunal cum Christo. – 17. Adeo ut quidquid facit Pap, ab ore Dei videatur procedere. – 18. Deveniendo ad Papae auctoritatem, Papa est quasi Deus in terra encius Christifidelium princeps, regum omnium rex maximus, plenitudinem potestatis continens, cui terreni simul ac coelestis imperii gubernacula ab omniptente Deo credita sunt. – 19. Congruunt ulterius quoad Papae summam auctoritatem et potestatem textus iuris Caesarei. – 20. Non minus summam Pape auctoritatem et potestatem extollunt rescripta et dogmata virorum aliorum Imperatorum. – 21. Magis magisque supremam Papae auctoritatem potestatemque extollunt plurimi sacri canones et ibi canonistae communiter. – 22. Egregium dictum S. Cyrilli Alexandrini de admirabili auctoritate seu potestate Summi Pontificis. – 23. Hinc iam communis opinion docet, quod Pap utriusque gladii habeat potestatem, spiritualem scilicet, et temporalem. – 24. Quae opinio auctoritate sanctorum Patrum, iuris canonici et civilis dispositione, et apostolicis constitutionibus latissime confirmatur. – 25. Adeo ut contrarium affirmantes videantur adhaerere fere illi opinioni haereticorum reprobatae per Bonifaccium VIII in extravag. Unam Sanctum 1 de Obedient. – 26. Unde principes et reges, infideles possunt per sententiam Papae privari in certis casibus Dominio, quod habent super fideles. – 27. Et inde Pap provincias, quae olim Christianorum erant, ab infidelibus occupatas, alicui ex principibus Chrsitianis regendas concedit. – 28. Imo Papa in casibus, quibus propter haeresim regis, videat periclitari religionem illius regni, fidemque aliorum, nec aliter tanto damno succuri possit, tunc potest non solum a rege regnum, sed etiam ab eius successoribus, si illud debellaverit, concedere. – 29. Afferuntur ad id varia exempla. – 30. Papa tantae est auctoritatis et potestatis, ut possit quoque leges divinas modificare, declarare, vel interpretari, ad num. 31. – [empty] – 32. Papa id potest de se solo etiam sine generali Concilio. Est enim Papa supra Concilium generale, et non e contra. – 33. Quanto vero Papa maior, et excellentior est omnibus, tanto humiliorem se reputat et nominat, ac se vocet Servum servorum Dei? – 35. Quis fuerit primus Pontifex qui se Servus servorum Dei nominavit? – 36. Papa potest ceder et renuntiare Papatui. – 37. Talis renuntiatio fieri debet apud collegium Cardinalium. – 38. Quantum ad Papae infallibitatem, potest Papa considerari dupliciter: primo, quo ad se, ut persona privata privatusque doctor; secundo, quo ad alios, ut persona publica et magister universalis Ecclesiae, eam ex cathedra docens, proponendo quid credendum, quidve agendum sit. – 39. Loqui ex cathedra quid sit? – 40. Loqui ex cathedra non arcatur praecise ad ea, quae Papa proponit ut a Deo revelata, et a nobis credenda fide theologica, sed insuper extenditur ad caetera quae proponit seu tenenda, seu servanda. – 41. Decreta, quae edit Papa ex cathedra circa doctrinam fidei et morum, sunt infallibilia. – 42. Affertur probatio primae partis conclusionis, scilicet, quod infallibilia sint decreta Papae circa doctrinam fidei. – 43. Adducitur et solvitur instantia. – 44. Adducitur et solvitur alia instantia, ad. n. 45. – [empty] – 46. Affertur probatio secundae partis conclusionis, scilicet quod infallibilia sint decreta Papae circa doctrinam morum. – 47. Adducitur obiectio contra conclusionem. – 48. Adducitur responsio et solutio dictae obiectionis. – 49. Papa errare non potest in canonizatione Sanctorum. – 50. Affertur probatio, quod id sit de fide. – 51. Adducitur et solvitur obiectio. – 52. Adducitur et solvitur alia obiectio. – 53. Papa secundum multos licet, errare non possit, et infallibilis sit in beatificatione Beatorum infallibilitate morali, et infra fidem, non tamen infallibilitate fidei. – 54. Affertur ratio huius sententiae. – 55. Papa secundum multos alios est absolute infallibililis infallibilitate fidei, non solum in canonizatione sed etiam in beatificatione. – 56. Affertur ratio istius sententiae. – 57. Adducitur responsio ad rationes proris sententiae. – 58. Pontifex errare non potest in approbatione religionum. – 59. Affertur ratio. – 60. Adducitur et solvitur obiectio. – 61. Adducitur et solvitur instantia. – 62. Papa probabilius etiam ut persona privata non potest in haeresim incidere et in fide deficere. – 63. Affertur ratio. – 64. Ex Romanis Pontificibus nemo unquam repertus fuit qui in haeresim vel apostasiam fuerit prolapsus. – 65. Adducitur et solvitur obiectio. – 66. Adducitur et solvitur alia abiectio. – 67. De fide est Benedictum XIV v. g. legitime electum, et talem ab Ecclesia acceptatum, esse verum Papam. – 68. Affertur probatio ex Concilio Constantiensi sub Martino V, et ex constitutione Leonis X damnantis haeresim Lutheri. – 69. Affertur probatio ex ratione. – 70. Adducitur et solvitur obiectio. – 71. Adducitur et solvitur alia abiectio. – 72. Primatus Ecclesiae universalis, seu Papatus est annexus Romano episcopatui de iure divino. – 73. Affertur probatio ex sacris canonibus et conciliis. – 74. Adducitur et solvitur obiectio ad. 75. – [empty] – 76. Adducitur et solvitur instantia. – 77. Adducitur et solvitur alia instantia concludendo, quod primatus Ec- [page 41 → page 42] clesiae nequeat a Romano episcopatu ulla humana potestate separari, ad n. 78. – [empty] – 79. Quamvis aliqui Pontifices Avenione manserint, semper tamen episcopatum Romanum tenuerunt, et Romani Pontifices fuerunt appellati. – 80. Ubi Papa ibi Roma. – 81. Papa etiamsi salutet excommunicatum, aut ipsi scienter participet quovis modo, non idcirco censetur eum absolvere, nisi expresse se declaret id velle. – 82. Alia ad rem ad n. 88. – [empty]​

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1. Papa tantae est dignitatis et celsitudinis, ut non sit simplex homo, sed quasi Deus Vicarius Dei; c. Ita Dominus 7, dist. 19, ibi: Hunc enim in consortium individuae unitatis assumptum, id, quod ipse erat Dominus, voluit nominari, dicendo: Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam; et ibi explicat Glossa: Id, quod ipse erat, scilicet petra, voluit eum vocari Petram; et concordat textus in can. In novo 2, dist. 21, et c. Fundamenta eius 17 de Election. In 6, annot. 1,​

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2. ad dec. 2, n. 2, part. 3 Rot. recent. Unde Papa adeo summae et supremae dignitatis est, ut proprie loquendo non sit in dignitate constitutus, sed potius in ipso culmine dignitatum positus, ut observat Card. Zabarell. in Clement. 1, in 5 notabil. de Renuntiat., et cit. Annot. 2, ad decis. 2, num. 2, part. 3 Rot. recentior.​

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3. Hinc Papa idem est ac Pater patrum, ut notat Gloss. Communiter recepta in Prooemio​

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4. Clement., verb. Papa. Et hoc nomine [1] uti potest solus Summus Pontifex, ut maxima ratione, teste Card. Petra, tom. 1 Comment. ad Constit. 1 divi Leonis, n. 8, fuit statum a Gregorio VII anno 1063, VII Kalend. Maii in Synodo Romana, quia vere solus ipse dici potest Pater patrum, sum contineat primatum omnium, omnibusque sit vere maior, omniumque maximus; cap. Solitae 6 de Maiorit. et obedient., ibi: Fecit Deus duo magna luminaria in firmamento coeli; luminare maius, ut praeesset diei, et luminare minus, ut praeesset nocti, utrumque magnum, sed alterum maius. Ad firmamentum igitur coeli, hoc est universalis Eclesiae, fecit Deus duo magna luminaria, id est duas instituit dignitates, quae sunt pontificalis auctoritas et regalis potestas, sed illa quae praeest diebus, id est spiritualibus, maior est; quae vero carnalibus, minor, ut quanta est inter solem et lunam, tana inter Pontifices et reges differentia cognoscatur [2]. ...​

 

[Adventageous]

Nice documentation, but it still does not mean the Pope is God. His authority is limited to Catholics, not to you, not to the world, but to Catholics and nobody else pays attention to him anyway.
Your first line: " by virtue of which it is established that he is over the church" does not mean the Pope is God. That would be blasphemous. Made-in-America cults have a bad habit of twisting and distorting old meaningless documents, and why are they (JW, SDA etc.) the only ones doing it? Get a life.

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5. Papa Sanctissimus appellatur, quia talis vere praesumitur; can. Non nos 2, dist. 40, ibi: Quis enim sanctum dubitet esse, quem apex tantae dignitatis attollit? In quo, si desint bona acquisita per meritum, sufficiunt quae a loci praedecessore praestantur; aut enim claros ad haec fastigia erigit, aut qui eriguntur, illustrat. Neque sanctissimi appellari possunt imperatores et reges, quamvis enim in legibus civilibus videatur aliquando usurpatum ab imperatoribus nomen sacratissimi, ut observat Card. Petra. Tom. 1 Commentar. ad Const. 1 divi Leonis Magni, n. 9. Et. Merito solus Papa appellatur nomine Sanctissimi, quia solus ipse est Vicarius Chritsti, qui est fons et origio, atque plenitudo omnis sanctitatis, cap. Inter corporalia 2, cap. Quanto 3, cap. Licet 4 de translatione Episcopi, cum similibus.​

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8. Papa prae excellentia suae supremae dignitatis vocatur Episcopus Episcoporum, can. Novatianus 6, caus. 7, qu. 1, can. Loquitur 18, caus. 24, qu. 1. Item appellatur Ordinarius Ordinariorum, c. Cuncta per mundam 17, can. Per principalem 21, caus. 9, qu. 3. Item Episcopus universalis Ecclesiae, prout definit Pelagius II, Const. Incip. Manifesto. Item Episcopus seu Dioecesanus totius orbis, cap. Ad honorem 4 de Auctoritate et usu pallii, Glossa verb. Privata, in c. Felicis, [double s] final., de Poenis in 6. Item divinus monarcha ac imperator supremus, et rex regum; adnotat. Secundae partis, ad dec. 2, Rotae recentior., n. 7.​

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13. Hinc Papa triplici corona coronatur, tanquam Rex coeli et terrae et infernorum; adnotat. 1 ad dec. 2, part. 3, Rotae recentior., [double s] 45, num. 61.​

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Nota Romani Theologi.​

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De triplici Papae corona Nicolaus Alemanus de Laternanensibus parietinis, cap. 13, p. 48, tom. 8, part. 6 Thesauri antiquit. et historiarum Italiae, ita scribit: Tiaram triplicis coronamenti ex Pontificibus primus gestavit ante annos non amplius ducentos quinquaginta Urbanus V, duplicis vero Bonifacius VIII. Nam superiorum Pontificum tiaras in vetustis imaginibus ac monumentis unius coronamenti, et Romae cernimus, et Surgerius describit: capiti [page 42 → page 43] eius (Innocentii VI) phrygium ornamentum imperiale instar galeae circulo aureo concinnatum imponunt. Circa ea quae de triplici Papae regno, deque potestate in sanctos angelos, quorum ipse sit maior, auctor recenset, consulendi sunt theologi. Quae enim ex iurisconsultis ipse refert, eruditis theologis suspecta, et quandoque etiam ridicula habentur. Capiti enim, ac visibili Ecclesiae principi, non alii sane quam visibiles subditi, fideles scilicet homines designari videntur, atque in hoc tantum solvendi ligandique potestatem exercet, eos scilicet regendo, absolvendo vel per censuras ligando dum vivunt, et per Indulgentias iuvando vita functos.​

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Responsio Auctoris.​

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Mirandum, quod theologus noster sic parvipendat iurisconsultos; ut quae ipsi tradiderint, eruditis theologis suspecta, et quandoque etiam ridicula haberi pronuntiet! Nonne classici iurisconsulti sunt etiam saepe eruditi theologu? Talis certe fuit celeberrimus Paulus Rubeus, qui in cit. Adnotat. Ad dec. 2, part. 3 recent. Sacr. Rom. Rotae, innumeros allegat pro suis conclusionibus theologos, ac in multis etiam SS. Patres. Et si talis non fuisset, sacrum illud supremum tribunal nequaquam permisisset quod suis decisionibus adnecterentur Rubei eruditissimae adnotationes. Legant itaque eruditi omnes dictas sapientissimi iurisconsulti adnotationes ad dec. 2, part. 3 Sacr. Rom. Rotae recentior., et iudicium ferant.​

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14. Imo Romani Pontific excellentia et potestas, nedum est circa coelestia, terrestria et infernalia, sed etiam super Angelos, quorum ipse maior est; cit. adnotat. 1, ad dec. 2, part. 3 Rotae Romanae recent., [double s] 5, n. 24. Ita ut, si foret possibile, quod Angeli errarent in fide, vel contra fidem sentirent, per Papam iudicari et excommunicari possent; cit. adnot. 1 ad decis. 2 Rotae Romanae recent., [double s] 5, num. 24. Hinc in materiis fidei ad eum, tnaquam ad solem intendere debemus. Ita in cit. Sacr. Rot. Rom. In Compend. Redact., [double s] 3, in secund. adnot. ad decis. 2, [double s] 5, n. 32.​

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16. Tantae enim est dignitatis et potestatis, ut faciat unum et idem tribunal cum Christo, ut per textum in c. Quanto 3 de translatione Episcopi, tenent passim doctores adducti in cit. Adnot. 1, n. 68, ad dec. 2, p. 3 Rotae recent. Adeo ut quidquid facit Papa, ab ore Dei videatur procedere, ut post plurimos doctores, ratiocinatur Rota in Forosempronien. et Eugubina, seu Nullius, Emphyteusis 16 Iunii 1636 coram Coccino, [double s] Hinc inferendo, vers. Ita ut, quod fit a Papa, ab or Dei videtur procedere; cit. Adnot. 1 ad decis. 2, [double s] 5, a. 31, part. 3 Rotae recent.​

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18. Deveniendo igitur ad Papae auctoritatem; Papa est quasi Deus in terra, unicus Christifidelium princeps, regum omnium rex maximus, plenitudinem potestatis continens, cui terreni simul ac coelestis imperii gubernacula ab omnipotente Deo credita sunt, prout clare habetur in can. Omnes 1, dist. 22, ibi: Qui (scilicet Christus) aeternae vitae clavigero terreni simul et coelestis imperii iura commisit; et in extravagant. Ioannis XXII, cap. Si fratrum, unic., Ne sede vacante aliquid innovetur, et in alia celebri extravagant. Bonifacii VIII, cap. Unam sanctum catholicam de Maiorit. Et obed., inter communes.​

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19. Congruunt ulterius quo ad Papae summam auctoritatem et potestatem textus Iuris Caesarei, nempe in 1. Reddentes honorem Cod. de summa Trinitate et fide catholica; 1. Bene a Zenone Cod. de quadriennii Praescriptione; 1. Omnes dies Cod. de Feriis, et authent. de Monachis, [double s] Si vero relinquens; authentic. de ecclesiastic. Titul., [double s] 1, collat. 9, cum similibus.​

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20. Non minus summam Papae auctoritatem et potestatem extollunt rescripta et dogmata variorum aliorum Imperatorum, nempe Valentiniani, Othonis, Caroli Magni, Constantini, etc., quae ex eorum constitutionibus refert Gratianus in c. In memoriam 3, dist. 19, ibi: Per legatos apostolicam interpellet sublimitatem, ut potissimum sua sancta legatione dignetur decernere, etc.; et in summario expresse dicitur: Tolerandum est iugum, quod a Sancta Sede imponitur, licet intolerabile videatur; can. Valentinianus 3, dist. 63, ibi: Nos, qui gubernamus imperium, Pontificibus sincere capita nostra submittimus; c. Tibi domino Ioanni Papae 33, ead. Dist. 63, ibi: Sanctam Romanam Ecclesiam, et te rectorem ipsius exaltabo; can. Constantinus 14, dist. 96, ibi: Ut sicut Beatus Petrus in terris vicarius Filii Dei fuit constitutus, ita et Pontifices eius successores in terris principatus potestatem amplius, quam terrenae imperialis nostrae serenitatis mansuetudo habere videtur. ...” [Prompta Bibliotheca Vol. 6, “Papa”, Article 2; pg 41 → ] - Prompta bibliotheca, canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica, nec non ascetica, polemica, rubricistica, historica​

 

[Adventageous]

Nice documentation, but it still does not mean the Pope is God. His authority is limited to Catholics, not to you, not to the world, but to Catholics and nobody else pays attention to him anyway.
Your first line: " by virtue of which it is established that he is over the church" does not mean the Pope is God. That would be blasphemous. Made-in-America cults have a bad habit of twisting and distorting old meaningless documents, and why are they (JW, SDA etc.) the only ones doing it? Get a life.

Now the quote of Bellarmine, states that "All names which in the scriptures are applied to Christ, by virtue of which it is established that he is over the church, all the same names are applied to the Pope."

Therefore, all names of Christ, as scripture gives to Him, Bellarmine states are also the names as applied to the "Pope". Some of the very names of Christ in scripture are "I AM" (John 8:58), "God" (Hebrews 1:9), "Lord" ("JEHOVAH", Hebrews 1:10), "Everlasting Father" (Isaiah 9:6), etc. Christ is "Head" (1 Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 4:15, 5:23; Colossians 1:18, 2:10) over the church.

Do you agree with Bellarmine's basic premise?