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Proposes a rule of catholicity by testing doctrine through continuity, universality, and consent in the church.
Vincent of Lerinsc. AD 434-4355th century
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Overview
- Category
- Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
- Genre
- Compendium
- Tradition
- Western
- Region
- Gaul
- Original language
- Latin
- Date certainty
- Range
Historical context
Manuscript context
This text is represented here through a composite Latin witness set associated with Vincent of Lerins and its transmission in Gaul.
Themes
Controversies
- Doctrinal novelty debates
- Pelagian controversy
Source links
Primary translation
www.newadvent.org · Source quality: Primary · Last checked: 2026-03-01
Archive mirror
web.archive.org · Source quality: Archive · Last checked: 2026-03-01
Original language witnesses
Witness status: Composite witness set
Composite across both available Commonitorium witnesses.
Open normalized witness textCommonitorium Primum [ex Editione Baluziana]
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (see per-file TEI headers)
Commonitorium Secundum
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (see per-file TEI headers)