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Updated: May 29, 2025
Waterland's anxiety to show the anti-heretical force of St. John's Gospel and Epistles, has caused him to overlook their Catholicity their applicability to all countries and all times their truth, independently of all temporary accidents and errors; which Catholicity alone it is that constitutes their claim to Canonicity, that is, to be Canonical inspired writings. Ib. p. 266.
Rather he complained that Frederick's orthodoxy took the form of the punishment of his personal enemies, of whom many were good Catholics. Certainly Frederick's anti-heretical edicts were not prompted by religious zeal. He was more detached than any ruler of the Middle Ages from the current ideas of the time. He seems to have been, if it is possible, utterly non-religious.
The latter part of the section on Simon in the Philosophumena is not so important, and is undoubtedly taken from Irenaeus or from the anti-heretical treatise of Justin, or from the source from which both these fathers drew.
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