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De Praescriptione Haereticorum

XIX.

[1] Ergo non ad scripturas prouocandum est nec in his constituendum certamen in quibus aut nulla aut incerta uictoria est aut parum certa. [2] Nam etsi non ita euaderet conlatio scripturarum ut utramque partem parem sisteret, ordo rerum desiderabat illud prius proponi quod nunc solum disputandum est: quibus competat fides ipsa, cuius sunt scripturae, a quo et per quos et quando et quibus sit tradita disciplina, qua fiunt christiani. [3] Vbi enim apparuerit esse ueritatem et disciplinae et fidei christianae, illic erit ueritas scripturarum et expositionum et omnium traditionum christianarum.

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The Prescription Against Heretics

Chapter XIX.--Appeal, in Discussion of Heresy, Lies Not to the Scriptures. The Scriptures Belong Only to Those Who Have the Rule of Faith.

Our appeal, therefore, must not be made to the Scriptures; nor must controversy be admitted on points in which victory will either be impossible, ¹ or uncertain, or not certain enough. ² But even if a discussion from the Scriptures ³ should not turn out in such a way as to place both sides on a par, (yet) the natural order of things would require that this point should be first proposed, which is now the only one which we must discuss: "With whom lies that very faith to which the Scriptures belong. ⁴ From what and through whom, and when, and to whom, has been handed down that rule, ⁵ by which men become Christians?" For wherever it shall be manifest that the true Christian rule and faith shall be, there will likewise be the true Scriptures and expositions thereof, and all the Christian traditions.