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Councils of Carthage (418/419) and Orange (529): source notes

Councils of Carthage (418/419) and Orange (529): source notes

Works: Code of Canons of the African Church; Second Council of Orange. Edition/translation: Carthage: NPNF² vol. 14, as on New Advent (canon numbering from the African Code). Orange: English as on crivoice.org (translator not stated; Latin CCSL 148A not inspected).

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S1: African Code canon 111 (Carthage 418)

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3816.htm
  • Text: “whoever should say that the grace of God, by which a man is justified through Jesus Christ our Lord, avails only for the remission of past sins, and not for assistance against committing sins in the future, let him be anathema.”
  • Context: The grace “by which a man is justified” covers both remission and help against sinning. This is conciliar weight behind the blend.
  • Bears on: Q1, Q3
  • Status: verified (English)

S2: Orange canon 5

  • Source: https://www.crivoice.org/creedorange.html
  • Text: “If anyone says that not only the increase of faith but also its beginning and the very desire for faith, by which we believe in Him who justifies the ungodly and comes to the regeneration of holy baptism… belongs to us by nature and not by a gift of grace… it is proof that he is opposed to the teaching of the Apostles”.
  • Context: The beginning of faith is grace. Faith and baptism are joined.
  • Bears on: Q2, Q4
  • Status: verified (English, unattributed translation)

S3: Orange canon 18

  • Source: https://www.crivoice.org/creedorange.html
  • Text: “That grace is not preceded by merit. Recompense is due to good works if they are performed; but grace, to which we have no claim, precedes them, to enable them to be done.”
  • Context: Grace comes first, and reward follows grace.
  • Bears on: Q2, Q3
  • Status: verified (English, unattributed translation)

Topic: salvation

See salvation reasoning.

SAL S1: Orange canon 5 (cross-ref)

Topic: original-sin

See original-sin reasoning.

OSN S1: African Code canon 110 (Carthage 418)

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3816.htm
  • Text: “whosoever denies that infants newly from their mother’s wombs should be baptized, or says that baptism is for remission of sins, but that they derive from Adam no original sin, which needs to be removed by the laver of regeneration … let him be anathema.”
  • Context: Western conciliar teaching on original sin, received in the East through the African Code (how far it was received to verify).
  • Bears on: O2
  • Status: verified (English)