Scriptures, but on the contrary supplements and elucidates them. Doctrine opposed to the Bible cannot be a part of Tradition. God’s oral and written Word is a single thing and cannot be opposed to itself. But the Church is not only “the pillar and ground of the truth”; it is also, as we said, the channel of divine Grace. Man, by means of his freedom, not entirely lost by the Fall, can either accept or reject Grace, which saves only those who are willing to accept it. The work of salvation is the