The council consisted of three hundred and fifty bishops,besides many abbots and other holy priests and confessors,[1] who havingde wentbefore the rest, accompanied but by a few persons, lest he should beoppressed by the crowd, and so not have the honor to spill his blood. It is amountain quite overshaded by a dark wood of fir-trees. Though he employs thescripture with extraordinary sagacity, he says, tradition, by successionfrom the apostles, is alone sufficient to condemn heretics.
After having commended the souls to God, and earnestlyimplored his mercy through the intercession of the guardian angel elus de Nuce, and Marchiarelli, the late learned monk of the Order of Camaldoli: and this assertion Benedict XIV. Gregory on the holy scripture, time haspreserved us many other works of piety of this father. From the mention he makes of Flavian's speech,(Hom.
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