Vincent of Lérins: source notes

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Topic: scripture-and-tradition

See scripture-and-tradition reasoning.

SCT S1: Commonitory 2.5

• Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3506.htm (NPNF/ANF English translation)
• Text: “canon of Scripture is complete, and sufficient of itself for everything, and more than sufficient, what need is there to join with it the authority of the Church’s interpretation? For this reason — because, owing to the depth of Holy Scripture, all do not accept it in one and the same sense, but one understands its words in one way, another in another; so that it seems to be capable of as many interpretations as ther …”
• Context: Scripture sufficient, but interpreted by the church’s consensus.
• Bears on: C1, C3
• Status: verified (English)

SCT S2: Commonitory 2.6

• Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3506.htm (NPNF/ANF English translation)
• Text: “[6.] Moreover, in the Catholic Church itself, all possible care must be taken, that we hold that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, by all.”
• Context: The Vincentian canon.
• Bears on: C3
• Status: verified (English)