. . . our adversaries themselves
acknowledge a distinction between sacred Scripture, which is theopneustos [θεοπνευστος], “God-breathed,” and
the writings of the Fathers, and that the latter are to be tested by the former
as by a norm and rule. (Johann Gerhard, Confessio Catholica, The Catholic
Confession: Book I General, Volume IV, Part II, Chapter XIII: The Fathers,
ed. James D. Heiser [Malone, Tex.: Repristination Press, 2026], 261)
