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NASB | Mark 7:9 ¶ He was also saying to them, "You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 7:9 ¶ He was also saying to them, "You are experts at setting aside and nullifying the commandment of God in order to keep your [man-made] tradition and regulations. |
Subject: Church Fathers? Part IV |
Bible Note: "IV. There are three opinions among the papists as to the authority of the fathers. First, those who put them on an equality with the Scriptures: to which belong those decrees of the Glossator asserting, 'the writings of the fathers to be authentic, individually as well as collectively' (Dist. 9). Second (just the opposite), those who hold their writings to be merely human and therefore incapable of being a rule of faith. This was the opinion of Cajetan ('Praefatio,' Commentarii ... in quinque Mosaicos libros in Sacrae Scripturae [1639], vol. 1) and of the wiser papists. Third, those who, holding a middle ground, concede that the authority of individual fathers is human and fallible, but think that the common and universal consent of the fathers in controversies is infallible and divine. This was the opinion of the Council of Trent, affirming that 'the traditions of the fathers pertaining both to faith and practice must be received with an equal affection of piety with the Old and New Testaments' (Session 4, Schroeder, p. 17). And, in the same place, 'It prohibits anyone from daring to interpret the Scriptures contrary to that sense which the holy mother church has held, or now holds … or even against the unanimous consent of the fathers' (Session 4, Schroeder, p. 19). Most of the papists -- Stapleton, Bellarmine, Canus, Valentia and others -- agree with this." --Francis Turretin, from his "Institutes of Elenctic Theology" (1992-1997) |