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That an argument drawn from style is of itself unreliable and uncertain; 2. That most of the ancient canons were written in Greek, and therefore, from the hand of the translator who turned them into the Latin language, could easily have put on uniformity. Moreover it is enough that a doctrine by no means contrary to the genuine canons is handed down there, so that Febronius’s calumny concerning the origin of Primacy as to be traced back to them immediately vanishes.”
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These are the things which this year, not without the special help of God, we have been able to hand down concerning true Religion and the Church. Would that they may avail to bring those who are outside to the one sheepfold, and to confirm those who are within in its true spirit and love! “Let us believe, brothers,” said St. Augustine, On John, tractate 32, “that as much as each one loves the Church, so much he has the Holy Spirit.”
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Prato, 20 December 1904.
Canon Archdeacon Joachim Gori, Vicar General.