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Philemon, and the Hebrews ; two of Peter the Apostle, three of John the Apostle, one of the Apostle James, one of Jude the Apostle, and the Apocalypse of John INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE 61 the Apostle. But if any one receive not, as sacred and canonical, the said books entire with all their parts, as they have been used to be read in the Catholic Church, and as they are contained in the old Latin Vulgate edition, and knowingly and deliberately contemn the traditions aforesaid ; let him be anathema. [Session 4, Decree 1.] Furthermore, in order to restrain petulant spirits, it decrees that no one, relying on his own skill, shall in matters of faith, and of morals pertaining to the building up of Christian doctrine by wresting the sacred Scrip- ture to his own meanings, presume to interpret the said sacred Scripture contrary to that sense which holy Mother Church, whose office it is to judge of the true sense and interpretation of the holy Scriptures, hath held and doth hold, or contrary to the unanimous con- sent of the Fathers, even though such interpretations were never to be at any time published. [Decree 2.] Supernatural revelation, according to the faith of the universal Church, declared by the holy Synod of Trent, is contained in the written books and unwritten tradi- tions, which, having been received by the Apostles from the mouth of Christ himself, or by the Apostles them-

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