teaching of the Roman Pon- tiff. And I condemn, reject and anathematise all things contrary thereto, and all heresies which the Church had condemned, rejected and anathematised. from all error, but because, written by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, they have God for their author, and as such have been delivered to the Church itself. 1 Modified from column 3 since 1870. 64 ROMAN CATHOLICISM But since that which the holy Synod of Trent decreed concerning the interpretation of divine Scripture for the good of souls to curb the petulant has been at times wrongly explained, we, renewing the same decree, declare this to be its sense, that in the matters of faith and morals, pertaining to the building up of Christian doctrine, that is to be taken as the true sense of Holy Scripture which our holy Mother Church, whose office it is to judge of the true sense and interpretation of holy Scripture, held and holds ; and therefore that no one may interpret holy Scripture contrary to this sense or contrary to the unanimous consent of the Fathers. [Vatican Council, Session 3, Chap. 2.] EXPOSITION OF THE SCRTPTTJKES The same sacred and holy Synod, adhering to the