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St. Vincent of Lérins wrote his famous The Commonitory, or Commonitorium, in AD 434, under the pseudonym Peregrinus. A classic text affirming the authority of Scripture and the teachings of the Church Fathers, The Commonitory was written as a “reminder,” in an effort to preserve the authority of the Christian tradition. Citing Deuteronomy 32:7 (“ask thy father and he will show thee; thy elders...

thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings.” This exclamation “O” is a mark both of foreknowledge and of charity; for he foresaw that there should be errors, for which he also grieved beforehand. Who is at this day “Timothy?” if not either the wholer Church, or specially the whole body of prelates, who ought either themselves to have, or to infuse into others, the knowledge of Divine religion in its entireness.s What is it to “keep that which is committed to thy trust?” “Keep” it,t he says,
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