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texts of holy scripture in which repentance not pe-
nance as tho Catholic version: has it, 1 roduced
Jo St. told, epent’: for the
‘the | pu re, genuine a
from the very circumstances of t o texts, which
: your Anquirer, rae 8 quote ed; as’ is evident from St.
Math ‘Wo tothee, Corazain, wo to
- isa manifest ani
UNITED. STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY.
VOL.. 1X,.
242
0"... From the Catholic Press. ° the proportion of the fault ; and that such shall not ther we have superadded to what has been handed
uni ill a certain: timg ; but after they | down together with the sacred volume frum the ear-
,. —As a ‘Trinitarian and others have Ihave ¢ lone penance and confessed their fault, are |tiest an On
interest-
a
. 3. 2.
kingdom ot st heaven i is at hand.
Preaching the baptism of °
Yield, therefore, fruit worthy of ‘ Repentance.’—
Acts 2. 28, * Repent, * and be every one of youjq
baptized. everal texts now adduced, we
In the:
‘| mean Protestants} follow the original text which
you will allow to be Greek ; for, although St. Mat-|a
thew wrote his Gospel in Hebrew or Syro-Chaldaic,
which the Jews in Palestine spoke at: that time, yet
the ‘original, is not extant ; it was yansiated j in the
e ye;
00: Jing or prfenging the, da jays
ed. | speaks after.
3- {second Pisidia ; .v the ys
-|John, surnamed. Chrysostom or Golden. Mouth, on
then to be received.” aodices, can. 2,
And when the fat Council of Nice
pain ar of our:
of penance: when St.
asil, the Great, the illustrious ductor and jntepid
champion” of the ctiarcl in, the atury, |
me manner, in his fest chapter to
Aenpbilochiue, “shop of Iconium, the capital of the
when in same centu
jaccount 0 the uency and swe
uence, [as
cloth and ‘fasting of the Ninevites for eee n days. in
‘rot dior peenitentiams 7 so many of p
now ould demand, Mr Editor, of your
tnguier, eal these speeches of penance, and doing
enance,. are not expressed by the said Greek
words ? “And J would ask him, wlethér in these
time of the Apostles into Greek, and t
was. of equal a authority Harn fie “erg inal. I
ead: red word in that
- Lord 325, speaks of shorten- |
7 Where (here | is mentioned a prescribed time He
n, by st
more e concerning th
ble being the only rule of . faith,
© ‘leave of your Inquirer for the presen
et the fnauirer, who holds to the Bib
what §
e Bi-
and i shall Make
alone as
zi
devoured by wild beasts ! to
the Christians who gotaccess to him, dy
e rising heresies, rd adhere with
th mness to the traditions of the Apostles.”
Euseb. hist. 1. 3. nd also what St. Ire-
neus, 2 disciple of St Polfcarp, writes oD Nothing
is ‘easier to those who seek for truth, than to rema
ery church, the tra ition, which th © pests
have manifested to all the world. . ¥ n nance
the Bishops appointed by the vApostles i in the several
churches, and the arper ig or thuse Bishops down
to time, no 1om.ever taught or-heard of
such doctrines as these bores dream o vers.
1. iii. ¢.'5. and he mphatieally affirms,
t
of
he will translate vyepe
life only 2 Moreover, | the Latin church, [which he
* bu
eo a and amendineut of
tin explaining the Scriptures, Christians are to
attend to the pastors of the church, who, b
of Go
y t
dinance , have receive the igherttance of
> L. 4
ish translators substitute reeves ad ‘do pe-| says, truth, with the succession of thoi
nance,’ for ‘repent’ and ‘repentance.’ Should|is, ‘to the pare, genuine and evangelical doctrines 43. He adds; “the tongues of- r Sees.” vary but
to time,
not for the sake of cuontroverting with your cotres-
pondent or yourself, but merely for the sa
certaining whether you hold tenable ground in “vhat|
I consider. superadditions of the Romish church t to
nd gelical doctrines con-
tained in the sacred "vord. “which I hold. as iny only
rule of faith. Iam, Mr, Editor. as above,
‘ SINCERE INQUIRER. °
We sent’ the Faquiter’s communication t
Correspondent and received the following answer.
Mr. Editor.—It appears that your “ Sincere|t
Enquirer’ is deeply versed in ‘the Greek language,
?| contained in th
+ | thereof,
as-lance
e Bible.’] antl all .the ancient father:
always. read, as‘the vulgate Latin interpre-
ter tr anslates, and do all expound ihe same, pén
doing penan For mple, let your
Tn nquirer r consult rutin” 8 "epiatle 108, among
others,
painfal or.** penitential
forgive they are forgiven, and whose sins ye’ shall
they are retained
ther that the visible sign in pansies is, the Peni
confessing his sins, and the priest absolvi The
and from his knowledge of that language will
metanoia and mmefanocite to signify *re-
he does not venture on ‘ne
” only crepentafice.’ .
however [also as a Hellenist consider oot only fat
different from the Greek words allude 3: but even
> E-
thee, Sethevide for if in ‘Tyre, and Sidon the migh-
ty works had been done that, have been dev ne in you,
they would rand ago have done * e? (or if the
inquirer will have it, ‘repented’) tn in sack-cloth and
ash es Again, ‘in ‘st. Lake 10, 15. they. would
have done : ‘Penance’ or repented, sitting in sack-
cloth and ashes.
. Sack-cloth and ashes,
but signify more than the "word repentance, or a-
mendment -of life can denote ; as is plain from the
words of St. Basil, whose matricular tongue was
Greek, and rho I presume will he admitted to have
n the language even better than your Inquirer.
ae, haly athe says, on Psalm the 29th, *
cloth ‘makes for’ penance; for the fathers of old
lime, sitting in sack-cloth and ashes, did penance.’
do not St. Jol the Baptist and St. Paul plainy
signify ponitontial works. when they exhort u
YP? Which penanes St
“
ther:
> Mr. Editor, cannot
declares.
ance, whereby pro
ony “they are called in the chureh that are peni-
ce, the remission of his sins "made b
grace. Whose sins ye shall remit, said the Saviour
te his Apostles and their paceessor 8, they are remit-
t: John 20. But if the Inquirer wish to co
cule the: fathers on penance. as no ‘doubt he is ac-
quainted mie their writings, he will find them speak-
ing, as follo
n the sec ‘ond age Tertullian says, ‘God foresce-
ing the poison, to witof sin, the gate of pardon be-
ing fast, and the: bolt of washing being shut, hath
yet permitted something to-lie open, and hath plac:
ed in the porch the second penance, | which
open to them that knock: I. de itent. ” And
again, let him blot out what hath been committed
by doing. penance, by weeping, by sefiafjings" &c.] p
Homil. 6. in Exod.
Iw the ‘hind age 8. Cyprian affirms that ‘ * pri-
va which men con nfessed their sins
wad wicked “thoughts not only tal, but venial!
and had satisfaction imposed. aceording to the ‘of.
fence, was usual in his time, and | earnestly exhorts
all thereunto”? Se ermon e 5. de lap:
fourth a St. Hier +6 Let ii
blood of our Saviour, thera in the
penance, which. intimates the
grace of ba
n the same age St. Chrysostom : : “They not on-
ly regenerate us, =: bY baptist | but an erwards have
o{power to par us our sin: 9. de sacerdot.
In the sume nee St. Ambrose. oi Why do ye bap-
-|tize, ifsins cannot be remitted by a man? ? forin bap-
>| gift of bapt ptism,
aptis
- tents ; removed - also from Dar taking-th
of the altar.”» And Sozomen, -in n his goclesioetical
history, [more learned I dare say than your Hellen
istic Inquirer] says, “in the church of Rome, there
known place for the penitents,
and in it they stand sorrowful, and as it were mourn-
ing,.and when the sacrifice i is ended, bei
partakers thereof, with weeping and lamentation,
they cast themselves flat on the } round ; then the
_ bishop, weeping .also. with compassion, lifts them
a certain time enjoined, absolves| 0
This the priests or bish-
keep from the beginning, even until
our time.” niy Sozomen,
but Socrates also, tad all the ‘ancient fathers, whén
they speak of penitents, that confessed: and lament-
ed their sins, and were enjoined ‘penance, and per
formed it, did always express it in the Greek words;}
Socrat. lib. 5. cap. gain, when
cneient counc il of Laodices saya,"‘tlat the time
of penance should he given to offenderscconding i to
-|by penance or by ba
which; therefore, are proved t most ovidently tosigni-|
ain,
"fy pe
the anci
e remission of all sins\; nor is it material,
whether priests challenge to rome ves this power
3 for i is the same in
both :. 1. de pxnitent, e
the fifth ago St. Augustin says, ‘some run
unto'the church asking baptism others reconcilia-
tion : others also, the doing of penance itself: all,
\the conferring and ma king. of sacraments 5 ; Epist.
8. And again, ‘If murder be committed by a
|Catechumen, it is washed way by baptist 3 ify
e that is apie, it needs penance ‘and reconci-
liation. de adulte r. conjug. 1, 2. ¢. 16.
“The third council of Carthage “decreed, that “the
time _ of penance should be a) appointed. penitents by |
the arbitrament of the bishop according to the dif-
ference of their sins: can 34, 1200, yearsago, |
The Cabilon council affirms, “ that their confes.|
sion being made, penance be enjoined to’ the peni-
tents by priests, all priests _ agree: can. 8. above
1000 D years since.’
whether our “round i
is tenable’? or not, and whe-
where he will ud it pain. that he speaks of
for satisfaction of|
sins. I shall also state, Mn ‘Editor, for the informa-
tion of yo quirer, that penance he ancient
chu nt and G a on that text of
d,”? John » 23. And fur-}7,
be re-| °
ur Inquirer, by this time it is to be hoped, sees |
S|the virtue of tradition zs one and the every
where; nor do the rches in German: 7 [mind in
his time] holieve or teach differently from those in
Spain, Geul. the East, Egypt or Lybia.” L. 1. c.
And again, * SUPPOSING THE APO STLES
HAD NOT. LEFT THE SCRIPTURES
OUGHT WE NOT STILL TO HAVE FOL
LOWED THE URDINANCE OF TRADITION,
which they consigned to those to whom they com-
mitted the churches 2 Itis this ordinance of tradi-
tion which many nations of barbarians believing in
Christ, follow, without the use of letters or ink.”—
4. ¢. G4. I might quote Tertullian, St. Clement
others, in support of tradition, not the Bible
a rule of faith 5 ; but I shall content myself with
giving a short passage froin ohn Chrysostom,
and another from St. Epiphanius, who flourished in
“|the fourth century. ‘The former, though strongly
recommending the reading of the Holy ‘Scriptures,
yet in his exposition es. ji, 14.
says, ‘* Hence it is plain that the Apostles did not
deliver us every thing by their epistles, but any
ess without ‘writing.
elief. Hence let us regard the tuition of the
chat as the si elief.- bh and
such a thing ts @ traditi
latter in his book of Heresies,
| must make use of tradition : for all things are not to
be found in Scripture.”
m, Mr. Editor, with regard for you and your
Inquirer, an Hellenistic Catholic in communion
with the Holy See, and Member of an:
IN FALLIBLE CHURCH.
2,
{From the ve Trath-Teller: -
"To the Editor of the Truth-Teller.
EXMAN, YOU will much oblige’ ine by giving
that it has remained in t
Courier and Eni virer, ‘since t the 11th inst without
being published.--New York, Jan. 11, 1830.
To the Reverend Signers and Abbettors of a Weekly
Journal, recently published at 245, Spring street,
ew. York, exe eee Protestant.” alias, an
attack upon Catho
EREND Siks, .
‘T had thought that the days of Religions 4 discord
and fanatical zeal had nearly terminate ra
thought that we tived in an age, an
ty, in which each individu
a]conformity to the established laws of civil and social
life, might worshi e Creator according to the
dices conscience without the d
held forth to public execration on that ac
Thad thought, in fine, that the rancorou
ceniuriee. ha arly subsided, and had been suc- .
eeded by general “ponevolence. and an honest de-
|sire of seeking after Religious Truth, in the manner
the bight importance of the object in vie
would see ™m, however, that 1 have been much
mista ken.; for itted ti ‘dee, from. the
“ Prospectus” of “The Protea signed by you,
or.
of Alexandsia, St. Cypriaa, Origen, and a host of :
charitable, feelings. which characterized the last three :
most consonant to the dictates of good sense, and .