Note 12b — ON PAPAL INFALLIBILITY.

The phrases “to bind and loose” were Jewish, and most frequent in their writings. It belonged only to the teachers among the Jews to bind and loose. When the Jews set any apart to be a preacher, they used these words: “Take thou liberty to teach what is bound and what is loose.”—Strype’s Preface to the Posthumous Remains of Dr. Lightfoot, p. 38. See Dr. A. Clarke’s commentary in loco.