Post by contingentbeing on Jul 19, 2020 21:16:13 GMT
Greetings, I have seen quotations from the Second Council of Nicaea accepting an incredibly pro-Papacy letter of Adrian I. For example:
In the next General Council, being the Second of Nicaea (A.D. 787), a letter was read from Pope. Adrian I. to Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople, wherein the Pontiff states most plainly the divine authority of his supremacy. He writes as follows: “‘The gates of hell shall not prevail against her.' And again, ‘Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church.' . . . Whose See was appointed the head of all the Churches of God, as holding supremacy over the whole world. Wherefore the blessed Apostle Peter, through the word of God feeding the Church, has retained, and will ever retain, the Princedom. - The Saviour of the world gave the Apostle Peter princedom and authority over the whole world; and through the same Apostle in whose place we, although unworthy, at present sit, the holy Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church has up to the present time held, and will for ever hold, his princedom and authority. - It is the head of all the Churches of the world.” Then the council, Tarasius himself being among them, having heard Adrian's letter, unanimously exclaimed, “We follow, accept, and admit, these letters. [[Hadrianus I. : Epist. ad Tarasium, in act. ii. Conc. Nic. ii. (Labbe, t. viii., p. 772). Ea collectione Anastasii Bibl., p. 764. The synod answered—]]
The Patriarch Tarasius also, in a letter addressed to the Pope, fully acknowledged the divine supremacy of the Apostolic See. [[Epist. Tarasji Patr. ad Hadrianum J., in act. viii. Conc. Nic. ii. (Labbe, t. viii, p. 1280).]]
Rev. Paul Bottalla, S.J. The Pope and the Church considered in their mutual relations.Vol. I 125-126
However, it seems this letter isn’t in the Greek. Does anyone know why this isn’t found in the Greek? Did the Greeks remove it later? Did the Latins add it later? Any consensus?
I have also seen very pro-papal quotes from John of Damascus in the Patrologia Graeca, for example:
“The church was monarchial from the beginning, for the Apostle Peter whom our Doctor considers the first-called and the first to follow the Saviour.”
(Homily on the Transfiguration 6; Migne, PG, 96:553D)
“Peter was predestined by Jesus Christ to be the worthy head of the Church.”
(Homily on Holy Saturday 33, col. 636C, PG, 96:560C)
“It was not of tents that the Master constituted thee [Peter — EBB] the orderer, but of the Universal Church. Thy disciples, thy sheep, which the Good Shepherd entrusted to thee as head, have fulfilled thy desire [to make tents on the Mount of Transfiguration — EBB]. They have raised one tent to Christ, one to Moses and Elias, and now we celebrate our feasts here.”
(Homily on the Transfiguration, PG 16:596D)
Does anyone know if these are genuine letters accepted by scholars?
God bless.