Vincent of Lerins's short handbook of 434 on how to tell true teaching from new teaching: hold what has been believed everywhere, always, and by all. With the editor's appendices. Modern English from the Post-Nicene Fathers translation.
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Commonitory
1Why This Book Was Written2A Rule for Telling the Catholic Faith from Heresy3When Some Depart from the Rest4The Harm Done by New Doctrine5The Confessors Who Kept the Ancient Faith6Pope Stephen and Repeated Baptism7How Heretics Use Obscure Ancient Writers8Even an Angel from Heaven9A Warning Meant for All10Why God Lets Great Teachers Bring in Novelties11Nestorius, Photinus, and Apollinaris12What Photinus, Apollinaris, and Nestorius Taught13The Catholic Teaching on the Trinity and the Incarnation14Christ Truly Man, Not in Appearance Only15One Person from the Womb, and Mary the Mother of God16A Summary of the Faith and the Heresies17Origen, a Great Trial to the Church18Tertullian, a Great Trial to the Church19What These Examples Teach Us20The Marks of a True Catholic21Paul’s Warning Against Profane Novelties22Keep the Deposit23True Progress in Religious Knowledge24Avoiding Profane Novelties25Heretics Appeal to Scripture26Heretics Quote Scripture as the Devil Did27The Rule for Interpreting Scripture28Testing New Teaching by the Agreement of the Fathers29A Summary of What Has Been Said30The Fathers Read at Ephesus31The Council Held Fast to Antiquity32Celestine and Sixtus Against Novelty33Holding Fast to the Faith of the Fathers34Appendix: The Commonitory and the Athanasian Creed35Appendix: Section 69 and Augustine’s Followers36Appendix: Section 85 and Pope Celestine’s Letter