Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . at other times persuading hismother to perform the same office, had learned the Scripturesby heart; and who, when he came to die, discovered hislove to them by obliging his attendants to sing psalmswith him. Certainly he was far from the typical Pope of laterlimes ; and writing to the Bishop of Alexandria, he said(hat the bishoprics of Antioch, Alexandria, and Romewere equally apostolical, since they were all held byPeter. If you give me more than my due, you robyourself. If I am named Pope, you own yourself to be
Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . at other times persuading hismother to perform the same office, had learned the Scripturesby heart; and who, when he came to die, discovered hislove to them by obliging his attendants to sing psalmswith him. Certainly he was far from the typical Pope of laterlimes ; and writing to the Bishop of Alexandria, he said(hat the bishoprics of Antioch, Alexandria, and Romewere equally apostolical, since they were all held byPeter. If you give me more than my due, you robyourself. If I am named Pope, you own yourself to beno Pope. Let no such thing be named between us. Myhonour is the honour of the universal Church. I amhonoured in the honour paid to my brethren. The last letter Gregory ever wrote, addressed to Theo-delinda, Queen of the Lombards, discovers, by the presentswith which it was accompanied, his love for the Scripturesand their diffusion. I send, says he, to the PrinceAdoaldus, your son, a cross, and a book of the Gospels,in a Persian box, and to your daughter three rings, desiring. ST. auoustines ckoss, neak the site orST. augustikes sermon. 37 THE BIBLE SOON IN ITS PLACE AGAIN * 39 you to give ttem these things with your own hand, toenhance the value of the present. And, though already tainted with some error, the truthwhich Rome dispensed in the sixth century was mainlythat which we now hold. Her errors are all dated. Tran-substantiation was never broached until England hadbeen reconverted, and it took more than four centuriesto settle, until at last it was adopted by the fourth LateranCouncil in 1215. So with one thing after anotherthat is distinctively Papal, the claim of semper eadem being a highly absurd one, in the light of history. Itcannot be denied, indeed, that there was some taint Gospel had to fight its way in Rome through the oldprejudices of the City, and it was a maxim of some of. its early promoters to do as little violence to these prejudicesas pos
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