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The Rule of the Romanist

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 8, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 26.

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The Rule of the Romanist

The Bible and Tradition

If we would have the whole rule of Christian faith and practise, we must not be content with those scriptures which Timothy knew from his infancy, that is, with the Old Testament alone; nor yet with the New Testament, without taking along with it the TRADITIONS OF THE APOSTLES, and the INTERPRETATION OF THE CHURCH, to which the apostles delivered both the book and the true meaning of it.—Note of the Douay Bible in 2 Tim. 3:16, 17.
It will not suffice to tell me: "We have an infallible Scripture as a substitute for an infallible apostolate of the first century," for an infallible book is of no use to me without an infallible INTERPRETER.—"The Faith of Our Fathers," by James Cardinal Gibbons, 76th carefully revised edition, page 64.
The CHURCH is the divinely appointed custodian and INTERPRETER OF THE BIBLE.—Id., page 74.