Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Use and Value of the Writings of the Ancient Fathers: Considered as Auxiliary to the Proof of the Truth of the Christian Religion, and to the Elucidation of Its Doctrines; A Dissertation Which Obtained the Hulsean Prize for the Year 1841
The scheme from beginning to end, during the century of its promulgation, being thus delivered, from human lips to human minds, it followed, that if it was handed down to after generations at all, it must be handed down in the ordinary way Of transferring knowledge of any other kind.
Though it was the highest piece of knowledge the world had ever heard of, it could only be recorded and transmitted as other learning always had been. The care and anxiety with which this was done might differ, but the mode must be the same; the whole could only come down to us by tradition, written or unwritten.
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