Unam Sanctum
Boniface VIII, The Bull Unam Sanctum (1302) Date accessed: 1-23-2020
Number of quotes: 3
Book ID: 298 Page: -
Section: 3A1
We therefore declare, say, and affirm that submission on the part of every man to the bishop of Rome is altogether necessary for his salvation.
Quote ID: 7488
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 298 Page: -
Section: 3A1
By the words of the gospel we are taught that the two swords, namely, the spiritual authority and the temporal, are in the power of the Church. For when the apostles said “Here are two swords” [Luke, xxii. 38]—that is, in the Church, since it was the apostles who were speaking— the Lord did not answer, “It is too much,” but “It is enough.” Whoever denies that the temporal sword is in the power of Peter does not properly understand the word of the Lord when He said: “Put up thy sword into the sheath” [John, xviii. 11]. Both swords, therefore, the spiritual and the temporal, are in the power of the Church. The former is to be used by the Church, the latter for the Church; the one by the hand of the priest, the other by the hand of kings and knights, but at the command and permission of the priest. Moreover, it is necessary for one sword to be under the other, and the temporal authority to be subjected to the spiritual; for the apostle says, “For there is no power but of God: and the powers that be are ordained of God” [Rom., xiii. 1];
Quote ID: 7489
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 298 Page: -
Section: 3A1
Thus the prophecy of Jeremiah{7} concerning the Church and the ecclesiastical{8} power is fulfilled: “See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant” [Jer., i. 10].
Quote ID: 7490
Time Periods: 7
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