The Great Controversy - Righteousness is Love

530COMMONLY MADE BY ADDING NEW MATTER TO OLD. THUSHIS FORGERIES WERE LESS APPARENT WHEN INCORPORATEDWITH GENUINE MATERIAL. THE FALSITY OF THE PSEUDO-ISIDORIAN FABRICATIONS IS NOW INCONTESTABLYADMITTED, BEING PROVED BY INTERNAL EVIDENCE,INVESTIGATION OF THE SOURCES, THE METHODS USED, ANDTHE FACT THAT THIS MATERIAL WAS UNKNOWN BEFORE 852.HISTORIANS AGREE THAT 850 OR 851 IS THE MOST PROBABLEDATE FOR THE COMPLETION OF THE COLLECTION, SINCE THEDOCUMENT IS FIRST CITED IN THE ADMONITIO OF THECAPITULARY OF QUIERCY, IN 857.THE AUTHOR OF THESE FORGERIES IS NOT KNOWN. IT ISPROBABLE THAT THEY EMANATED FROM THE AGGRESSIVENEW CHURCH PARTY WHICH FORMED IN THE NINTH CENTURYAT RHEIMS, FRANCE. IT IS AGREED THAT BISHOP HINCMAR OFRHEIMS USED THESE DECRETALS IN HIS DEPOSITION OFROTHAD OF SOISSONS, WHO BROUGHT THE DECRETALS TOROME IN 864 AND LAID THEM BEFORE POPE NICHOLAS I.AMONG THOSE WHO CHALLENGED THEIR AUTHENTICITYWERE NICHOLAS OF CUSA (1401-1464), CHARLES DUMOULIN(1500-1566), AND GEORGE CASSENDER (1513-1564). THEIRREFUTABLE PROOF OF THEIR FALSITY WAS CONVEYED BYDAVID BLONDEL, 1628.AN EARLY EDITION IS GIVEN IN MIGNE PATROLGIA LATINA,CXXX. FOR THE OLDEST AND BEST MANUSCRIPT, SEE P.HINSCHIUS, DECRETALES PSEUDO-ISIDORIANIAE AT CAPITULAANGILRAMNI (LEIPZIG, 1863). CONSULT THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE (1950), VOL.9, PP. 343-345. SEE ALSO H. H. MILMAN, LATIN CHRISTIANITY(VOLS.), VOL. 3; JOHANN JOSEPH IGNAZ VON DOLLINGER, THEPOPE AND THE COUNCIL (1869); AND KENNETH SCOTTLATOURETTE, A HISTORY OF THE EXPANSION OF CHRISTIANITY(1939), VOL. 3; THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, VOL. 5, ART."FALSE DECRETALS," AND FOURNIER, "ETUDES SURE LESFAUSSES DECRETALS," IN REVUE D'HISTORIQUEECCLESIASTIQUE (LOUVAIN) VOL. 7 (1906), AND VOL. 8 (1907).