edition, and knowingly and deliberately contemn the Decree 1.] matters of faith, and of morals pertaining to the building the Apostle. But if any one receive not, as sacred and Mother Church, whose office it is to judge of the true three of John the Apostle, one of the Apostle James, the mouth of Christ himself, or by the Apostles them- tions, which, having been received by the Apostles from sacred Scripture contrary to that sense which holy up of Christian doctrine by wresting the sacred Scrip- universal Church, declared by the holy Synod of Trent, decrees that no one, relying on his own skill, shall in sense and interpretation of the holy Scriptures, hath is contained in the written books and unwritten tradi- ture to his own meanings, presume to interpret the said held and doth hold, or contrary to the unanimous con- they have been used to be read in the Catholic Church, and as they are contained in the old Latin Vulgate Supernatural revelation, according to the faith of the one of Jude the Apostle, and the Apocalypse of John canonical, the said books entire with all their parts, as Philemon, and the Hebrews ; two of Peter the Apostle, were never to be at any time published. [Decree 2.] traditions aforesaid ; let him be anathema. [Session 4, Furthermore, in order to restrain petulant spirits, it sent of the Fathers, even though such interpretations INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE 61