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St. Damasus I, 366-384

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cides in accordance with his own very wise deliberation. the bishop, he will do what he thinks is good according to his very wise deliberation. The bishops gave an answer. What was said was agreeable.

[From the epistle "Quod semper" by which the synod transmitted its acts to St. Julius]1

57c For this will seem to be best and most fitting indeed, if the priests from each and every province refer to the head, that is, to the chair of PETER the apostle.

ST. LIBERIUS 352-366

Concerning the Baptism of Heretics, see St. SIRICIUS [n. 88]

ST. DAMASUS I 366-384

COUNCIL OF ROME, 3822

The Trinity and the Incarnation3

[Tome of DAMASUS4]

58. [After this Council, which was assembled in the city of Rome by the Catholic bishops,5 they made additions concerning the Holy Spirit]. And because afterwards this error became so fixed that they even dared to say with sacrilegious words that the Holy Spirit was made by the Son:

59. (1) We anathematize those who proclaim quite freely that he is not of one power and substance with the Father and the Son.

60. (2) We anathematize those also who follow the error of Sabellius, saying that the same one is Father as well as Son.

  1. CSEL 65, 127; Cst 395 ff.; Msi III 40 ff.; Hrd I 653 f. Concerning the genuineness of this passage, cf. "Scholastik" I (1926), 260 (A. Feder). ↩

  2. P. Galtier, Rech. de science rel. 26 (1936) 385 ff., shows that the "Tomus Damasi" is due to this council. ↩

  3. C. H. Turner, Eccl. occid. monumenta iuris antiquissima. T. I, fasc. II, pars 1 (1913) 284 ff. "Tomus Damasi contains (after the Nicene Creed) the following canons: Cst 511 A ff. (cf. 518); coll. H. 272 ff.; If 235 c. Add.; ML 13, 358 B f. and 56, 686 B ff.; Msi III 481 D ff. (cf. 486 C. ff.); Hrd. I 802 B f. ↩

  4. The canons of this tome have been taken, as it seems, from the Council of Constantine I, and are praised as law by Celestine I [ML 53, 290 A] and Vigilius [ML 69, 176 B; Jf 937]. ↩

  5. Namely, the bishops gathered at Rome [cf. ML 56, 687 note a]. ↩