The Great Controversy - Righteousness is Love

524APPENDIXGENERAL NOTESORIGINAL TEXT PAGE 50. TITLES.--IN A PASSAGE WHICH ISINCLUDED IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CANON LAW, OR CORPUSJURIS CANONICI, POPE INNOCENT III DECLARES THAT THEROMAN PONTIFF IS "THE VICEGERENT UPON EARTH, NOT OF AMERE MAN, BUT OF VERY GOD;" AND IN A GLOSS ON THEPASSAGE IT IS EXPLAINED THAT THIS IS BECAUSE HE IS THEVICEGERENT OF CHRIST, WHO IS "VERY GOD AND VERY MAN."SEE DECRETALES DOMINI GREGORII PAPAE IX (DECRETALS OFTHE LORD POPE GREGORY IX), LIBER 1, DE TRANSLATIONEEPISCOPORUM, (ON THE TRANSFERENCE OF BISHOPS), TITLE 7,CH. 3; CORPUS JURIS CANONICI (2D LEIPZIG ED., 1881), COL. 99;(PARIS, 1612), TOM. 2, DECRETALES, COL. 205. THE DOCUMENTSWHICH FORMED THE DECRETALS WERE GATHERED BYGRATIAN, WHO WAS TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OFBOLOGNA ABOUT THE YEAR 1140. HIS WORK WAS ADDED TOAND RE-EDITED BY POPE GREGORY IX IN AN EDITION ISSUEDIN 1234. OTHER DOCUMENTS APPEARED IN SUCCEEDING YEARSFROM TIME TO TIME INCLUDING THE EXTRAVAGANTES, ADDEDTOWARD THE CLOSE OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, ALL OFTHESE, WITH GRATIAN'S DECRETUM, WERE PUBLISHED AS THECORPUS JURIS CANONICI IN 1582. POPE PIUS X AUTHORIZED THECODIFICATION IN CANON LAW IN 1904, AND THE RESULTINGCODE BECAME EFFECTIVE IN 1918. FOR THE TITLE "LORD GODTHE POPE" SEE A GLOSS ON THE EXTRAVAGANTES OF POPE JOHNXXII, TITLE 14, CH. 4, DECLARAMUS. IN AN ANTWERP EDITIONOF THE EXTRAVAGANTES, DATED 1584, THE WORDS "DOMINUMDEUM NOSTRUM PAPAM" ("OUR LORD GOD THE POPE") OCCURIN COLUMN 153. IN A PARIS EDITION, DATED 1612, THEY OCCURIN COLUMN 140. IN SEVERAL EDITIONS PUBLISHED SINCE 1612THE WORD "DEUM" ("GOD") HAS BEEN OMITTED.ORIGINAL TEXT PAGE 50. INFALLIBILITY.--ON THE DOCTRINEOF INFALLIBILITY AS SET FORTH AT THE VATICAN COUNCIL OF1870-71, SEE PHILIP SCHAFF, THE CREEDS OF CHRISTENDOM,VOL. 2, DOGMATIC DECREES OF THE VATICAN COUNCIL, PP. 234-