Council of Trent
The ecumenical Council of Trent and its Session IV decrees on canonical Scripture, the Vulgate's authenticity, proper interpretation, and regulation of printing. Lapide counts the Tridentine decree on the Vulgate among the greatest benefits God has bestowed on the Church.
Preliminaries
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DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT (SESSION IV).
— Title of the section reproducing the Tridentine decrees.
"DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT (SESSION IV)."
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DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT (SESSION IV).
— The Council, assembled in the Holy Spirit with papal legates presiding, receives Scripture and Tradition with equal reverence.
"The sacred, oecumenical and general Council of Trent, lawfully assembled in the Holy Spirit, with the three legates of the Apostolic See presiding over it"
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DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT (SESSION IV).
— The Council declares the Vulgate authentic and forbids its rejection.
"the same sacred and holy Synod, considering that no small utility may accrue to the Church of God if it be made known which out of all the Latin editions now in circulation of the sacred books is to be held as authentic"
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DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT (SESSION IV).
— The Council forbids private interpretation contrary to the Church or the Fathers.
"in order to restrain petulant spirits, it decrees that no one, relying on his own prudence... shall dare to interpret the sacred Scripture contrary to that sense which holy mother Church... has held and does hold"
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DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT (SESSION IV).
— The Council condemns the profane use of Scripture for divination, incantations, and defamatory purposes.
"wishing to repress that rashness by which the words and sentences of sacred Scripture are turned and twisted to profane things — namely to scurrilous, fabulous, vain, adulatory, detractive, impious and diabolical incantations, divinations, lots, and even defamatory libels"
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PREFACE TO THE READER (1)
— Lapide counts the Tridentine decree on the Vulgate among the greatest benefits God has bestowed on the Church.
"Among the many and great benefits which God has bestowed upon His Church through the sacred Tridentine Synod"
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Chapter II: On the Object and Breadth of Sacred Scripture
— Trent begins the reform of the Church from Scripture, prescribing the reading of Scripture be established or restored everywhere.
"the holy Council of Trent begins the reform of the Church from Sacred Scripture, and in its entire first decree On Reform, prescribes as carefully as it does at length that the reading of Sacred Scripture be either established or restored everywhere"
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Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers
— The Tridentine Synod in Session V decreed that reading of sacred Scripture be established in all assemblies of Canons, Monks, Regulars, and public academies.
"the Tridentine Synod took care... so that in Session V it would thoroughly decree and sanction regarding the reading of sacred Scripture, and ordain that in all assemblies of Canons, of Monks also and Regulars, and in all public academies the same should be established"
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Arguments for the Old Testament
— The Church in the Council of Trent commands that the perpetual reading of Sacred Scripture be everywhere restored.
"She, in the Council of Trent, in the entire first chapter On Reform, commands that the perpetual reading of Sacred Scripture be everywhere restored and established"