new to, what is otherwise contained in Scripture. For those who are slightly familiar with the history of this problem, this distinction will quickly show itself to be extremely important. We shall see in what follows that the Fathers of the Church, though aware of the transmission of things not contained in Scripture, favored the first explanation of tradition, as an original way of passing on the same objective material that is found in Scripture; since the Reformation, on the other hand, owing
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