The history of the popes, from the close of the middle ages : drawn ...

362 HISTORY OF THE POPES.
In several respects the Pope met the king's wishes. He did
not, it is true, give in to the frequently repeated proposal that
a larger number of theologians should be allowed to take part
in the discussions, and when the ambassador protested he
replied that if that were to be done, they would not get through
in ten days what was now accomplished in an hour ;i when
Zuiiiga expressed the wish that the Pope would at any rate
summon to Rome the authors of the most recent opinions in
order to hear their explanations, Pius was very angry, and
answered that he would not do so, and that Zufiiga wanted
the case to drag on for ever.^
Pius V. was willing to make some concession in the case of
PhiHp's other demand, namely that the final sentence should
be sent to Madrid before it was published.^ On the other hand
he gave a ready consent to a third wish expressed by the king,
declaring that he was quite ready to examine the opinions
which had recently been submitted by the Spanish theologians.
As a matter of fact these last opinions satisfied him as little
as had the previous ones, and the nuncio, Castagna, was told
to inform the king^ that these opinions concerned themselves
only with words, and did not take into consideration the sense
which the author attached to the words ;
to understand the
sense it was necessary to keep before one's mind the whole
sense of the writings. The method adopted by the Spanish
theologians would make heretics of St. Augustine and other
perfectly orthodox doctors, by divorcing their words from their
context. It must also be remembered that the archbishop
had written previous to the decrees of the Council of Trent,
and that where errors or heresies were discovered in his
writings it was very difficult to say that he must on that
account be held a heretic, and whether the final decision
should be left to the canonists or the theologians.^ This last
^ Zuniga to Philip II., October 12, 1571, ibid. 470.
^ Ibid. 473.
^ Zuniga, January 30, 1571, ibid, xxiii.
* Rusticucci to Castagna, August 20, 1570, ibid. III., 514 seq.
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