The blessed David
says to God, ‘Righteousness and judgement are the preparation of your throne,
mercy and truth will go before your face’ (Ps 88:15). Therefore the holy synod
of most God-beloved high priests in session with us, wishing, as is due,
to perform this ‘preparation’ through the ‘truth’ of the proceedings for the
glory and the imitation of his sacred throne . . . .(The Acts of the Lateran
Synod of 649 [Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014], 141)