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by his own power, but only obtained by him from the Father by
his prayers.
V. The Holy Ghost was not sent to the Apostles by Jesus
Christ, but by the Father alone, through the prayers of Jesus
Christ.
VI. Several other errors of his on various subjects.
1. Reading in the Bullarium of Benedict XIV. a Brief, which
"
begins Cum ad Congregationem" &c., published on the 17th
of April, 1758, I see there prohibited and condemned the second
part of a work (the first having been condemned in 1734),
entitled the of the "History People of God, according to the
New Testament," written by Father Isaac Berruyer; and all
translations of the work into any language whatever are also
condemned and prohibited. The whole of Berruyer s work,
then, and the Latin Dissertations annexed, and the Defence,
printed along with the Italian edition, are all condemned, as con
taining propositions false, rash, scandalous, favouring and ap
proaching to heresy, and foreign to the common sense of the
Fathers and the Church in the interpretation of Scripture. This
condemnation was renewed by Pope Clement XIII., on the 2nd
of December, 1758, and the literal Paraphrase of the Epistles of
the Apostles, after the Commentaries of Hardouin, was included
in it :
"
Quod quidem Opus ob doctrine fallaciam, et contortas
Sacrarum Litterarum interpretationes scandali mensuram
implevit." With difficulty, I procured a copy of the work, and
I took care also to read the various essays and pamphlets in
which it was opposed. It went, however, through several
editions, though the author himself gave it up,
and submitted to
the sentence of the Archbishop of Paris, who, with the other
Bishops of France, condemned it. Besides the Pontifical and
Episcopal condemnation, it was prohibited, likewise, by the
Inquisition, and burned by the common hangman, by order of
the Parliament of Paris. Father Zacchary, in his Literary
History, says that he rejects the Work, likewise, and that the
General of the Jesuits, whose subject F. Berruyer was, declared
that the Society did not recognize it.
2. I find in the treatises written to oppose Berruyer s work,
that the writers always quote the errors of the author in his