Appendix
General Notes
Revisions adopted by the E. G. White Trustees November 19,
1956, and December 6, 1979.
Page 50. Titles.—In a passage which is included in the Roman
Catholic Canon Law, or Corpus Juris Canonici, Pope Innocent III
declares that the Roman pontiff is “the vicegerent upon earth, not of
a mere man, but of very God;” and in a gloss on the passage it is
explained that this is because he is the vicegerent of Christ, who is
“very God and very man.” See Decretales Domini Gregorii Papae
IX (Decretals of the Lord Pope Gregory IX), liber 1, De Translatione
Episcoporum, (On the Transference of Bishops), title 7, ch. 3; Corpus
Juris Canonici (2d Leipzig Ed., 1881), col. 99; (Paris, 1612), tom. 2,
Decretales, col. 205. The documents which formed the decretals were
gathered by Gratian, who was teaching at the University of Bologna
about the year 1140. His work was added to and re-edited by Pope
Gregory IX in an edition issued in 1234. Other documents appeared in
succeeding years from time to time including the Extravagantes, added
toward the close of the fifteenth century, all of these, with Gratian’s
Decretum, were published as the Corpus Juris Canonici in 1582. Pope
Pius X authorized the codification in canon law in 1904, and the
resulting code became effective in 1918.
For the title “Lord God the Pope” see a gloss on the Extravagantes
of Pope John XXII, title 14, ch. 4, Declaramus. In an Antwerp
edition of the Extravagantes, dated 1584, the words “Dominum Deum
Nostrum Papam” (“Our Lord God the Pope”) occur in column 153.
In a Paris edition, dated 1612, they occur in column 140. In several
editions published since 1612 the word “Deum” (“God”) has been
omitted.
Page 50. Infallibility.—On the doctrine of infallibility as set forth
at the Vatican Council of 1870-71, see Philip Schaff, The Creeds of
Christendom, Vol. 2, Dogmatic Decrees of the Vatican Council, pp.
566