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Sr. HILARY, L. C. “ Christ (teaching from the ship) intimates, that they who are out of the Church, can possess no understanding of the divine word. For the ship is an emblem of the Church, within which, as the word of life is placed and preached, so they who are without being as barren and useless sands, cannot understand it." Com. In Matt. c. xiii. p. 675.

COUNCIL OF TOLEDO, L. C. This Council, held in the year 400, thus defines against the prevailing heresies : “ If any one shall assert or believe, that any other Scriptures, besides those which the Catholic Church receives, are to be esteemed of authority, or to be venerated, let him be anathema.". Conc. Gen. T. 11, p. 1228.

St. AUGUSTIN, L. C. “Should the heretic (Faustus) produce other works, which he insists, were written by some of the Apostles, by what means will he be able to give them an authority, which has not come down to him through those Churches, which the Apostles themselves founded.” Lib. xiii. c. 4. Contra Faustum. T. viii. p. 253 thority of our Sacred Books, confirmed by the consent of nations, through the succession of Apostles, Bishops, and Councils, is against you, Manicheans: while the authority of your pretended books is null; being maintained by such small numbers, and by those who blaspheme the name of God.” Ibid. c. 5, Ibid. c. 5, p. 254.- “Will you assert, that that passage is not in the gospel of Matthew, which the Universal Church has received through the succession of her Bishops ?--From the time that Evangelist lived, that book, through an uninterrupted series of ages is brought down to us; but you, perhaps, will produce another copy, under