Monday, October 27, 2008

The limits of Tradition


Custom without truth is the antiquity of error. [“Consuetudo sine veritate vetustas erroris est.”] On which account, let us forsake the error and follow the truth.

- Cyprian of Carthage (d. 258 A.D.) (Epistle 73.9)
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1 comment:

  1. Jared NelsonMonday, October 27, 2008 12:34:00 AM

    A valid truism, even if his particular application in the issue where he wrote this was invalid.

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