Does the Bible Really Say That?: Discovering Catholic Teaching in Scripture (19 page)

NOTES

Introduction

1.         Saint Jerome,
Commentary on Isaiah
, prologue, as quoted in
CCC,
133. Saint Jerome lived circa
ad
340–420.

Chapter 2

Temptations

1.         Samuel Johnson, www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Samuel_Johnson/.

Chapter 7

Gossip, Slander and Judging People’s Hearts

1.         Doris Benardete, ed.,
Mark Twain: Wit and Wisecracks
(Mount Vernon, N.Y.: Peter Pauper Press, 1998), p. 14.

Chapter 9

Humility

1.         Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, www.quotationspages.com.

Chapter 10

Homosexuality

1.
 
See Genesis
19:1–29; Romans
1:24–27; 1 Corinthians
6:10; 1 Timothy
1:10.

Chapter 17

The Blessed Trinity

1.         Theophilus of Antioch,
Ad Autolycus, 2,
15, as cited in
The Faith of the Early Fathers
, William A. Jergens, ed. (Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1970), vol. 1, p. 75; Tertullian,
Adversus Preaxeam
, chapter 2, as cited in
Ante-Nicene Fathers
, Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, eds. (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1994), vol. 3, p. 598. See also Tertullian,
On Modesty,
21, at http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/ 0407.html.

Chapter 20

Is It a Sin to Vote for Pro-Abortion Candidates?

1.         Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, no. 22 (November 18, 1974), emphasis added. Available at www.vatican.va.

Chapter 21

Qualities of a Good Bishop

1.         Note that the clause “husband of one wife” does not mean that a bishop
must
be married, as some mistakenly imagine. It means that a man who had been remarried after the death of his wife could not be considered as a candidate for bishop. This ecclesiastical discipline was akin to celibacy in the priesthood.

2.         Saint Augustine, “Sermon 340,”
Patrologia Latina
38, 1438, as cited in
Lumen Gentium
IV: 32,
Vatican II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents
,  Austin Flannery,
o.p.
, ed. (Boston: St. Paul Books and Media, 1975), p. 390.

Chapter 24

Gluttony

1.         Saint Thomas Aquinas,
Summa Theologica
,  III, art. 1, q. 148, p. 1 (Westminster: Christian Classics, 1981), p. 1787.

2.         Joseph F. Delaney, “Gluttony,”
The Catholic Encyclopedia
, vol. 6 (New York: Robert Appleton Co., 1909), p. 590.

Chapter 25

Do Catholics “Keep Christ on the Cross”?

1.         Henry Nutcombe Oxenham, “The Child-Christ on the Cross,”
The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse
, D.H.S. Nicholson and A.H.E. Lee, eds. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917), as quoted on www.bartleby.com. 

Chapter 26

Purgatory

1.         Saint Augustine interpreted Matthew 12:32 in this way with regard to purgatory in
City of God
, 21:24:2.

Chapter 31

Infant Baptism

1.         See 2 Corinthians 5:17; 2 Peter 1:4; cf. Galatians 4:5–7.
Cf. 1 Corinthians 6:15; 12:27; Romans 8:17.

2.         Patrick Madrid,
Answer Me This!
(Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor, 2003), p. 185.

Chapter 33

The Divinity of Christ

1.     In Greek,
kurios mou kai ho theos mou,
which literally means “the Lord of me and the God of me.”

Chapter 34

The Origin of Original Sin

1.         Saint Augustine,
On Marriage and Concupiscence
, book 2, chapter 15: “For even as ‘by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; so also has death passed through to all men, for in him all have sinned’ (see Romans 5:12).
By the evil will of that one man all sinned in him, since all were that one man, from whom, therefore, they individually derived original sin
” (emphasis added); see also ibid. book 1, chapter 37;
section 2, chapters 25 and 26. New Advent Online Patristics Library,
 
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/15072.htm
.

Chapter 37

Don’t Delay Conversion!

1.         Thomas à Kempis,
The Imitation of Christ
1, 23, 1, as cited in
CCC
, paragraph 1014.

 
2.        Saint Francis of Assisi,
Canticle of the Creatures
, as quoted in
CCC
, paragraph 1014
.

Chapter 38

The Myth of a “Total Apostasy”

1.         Bruce R. McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
(Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966), pp. 43–44.

Chapter 39

The Field of Wheat and Weeds

1.         Saint Thomas Aquinas,
Summa Theologica
, III, art. 8, q. 3 obj. 2.

Chapter 40

Lust and Impurity

1.         Saint Augustine,
Confessions
, 8:7, (London: Penguin, 1961), p. 169.
The complete quote reads: “As a youth, I had been woefully at fault, particularly in early adolescence. I had prayed to you for chastity and said, ‘Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.’ For I was afraid that you would answer my prayer at once and cure me too soon of the disease of lust, which I wanted satisfied, not quelled.”

Chapter 43

The “Brothers” of the Lord

1.     Although some modern translations use the term “kinsmen,” the literal rendering of Genesis 13:8, in the Hebrew, Greek and Latin, is “we are brethren” (
fratres enim sumus
).

2.     See Augustine,
On Holy Virginity
, 4.

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