Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/The Decretals/The Epistles of Pope Callistus/Note by the American Editor

Note by the American Editor.

See p. 613, note 1.&#160; For Callistus and his times, see the testimony of Hippolytus, vol. v. pp. 158, 159, 160; Elucidations X., XI., XII., XIII., XIV., XV.&#160; It must be owned that the forgery is better than the genuine productions of this forerunner of the Popes of the ninth and tenth centuries.&#160; The title &#8220;Pope,&#8221; in its later sense, seems not inappropriate to such a character.