"It was intended by God that we should look back upon Scripture from the communion of the Church, not that we should measure the living Church, or build up a Church of the future, from our own conceptions of Scripture. O how different is the New Testament according as we adopt one or other of these two courses."
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Thomas Edward Bridgett
Thomas Edward Bridgett (20 January 1829 – 17 February 1899) was an English Catholic priest.
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