Lateran Council (under Innocent III)
Ecumenical council held under Pope Innocent III in 1215. Referenced for its decree establishing the chair of sacred Letters, which Lapide describes as renewing and confirming an ancient custom rather than instituting something new.
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers
— What was decreed at the Lateran Council under Innocent III concerning the chair of sacred Letters
"what was decreed at the Lateran Council under Innocent III concerning the chair of sacred Letters is to be regarded not as a new decree, but as one renewing and confirming an ancient custom"
Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses
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Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch
— Chapter Firmiter on the Supreme Trinity concludes two truths from Genesis 1:1
"this is gathered from the Lateran Council, chapter Firmiter, on the Supreme Trinity"
Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)
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In the Beginning: Nine Interpretations
— The Lateran Council, chapter Firmiter, interprets "in the beginning" as "in the Son"
"the Lateran Council, chapter Firmiter, on the Supreme Trinity and the Catholic Faith"
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In the Beginning: Nine Interpretations
— The Lateran Council teaches that angels were created simultaneously with the corporeal world
"the angels were not created before the corporeal world, but simultaneously with it by God, as the Lateran Council teaches"
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Heaven and Earth: Four Interpretations
— The Lateran Council under Innocent III defines that God created spiritual and corporeal creatures simultaneously at the beginning of time
"the Lateran Council, under Innocent III: "It must be firmly believed that God from the beginning of time created from nothing both creatures at once: the spiritual and the corporeal, the angelic and the worldly.""