Note 244 — Chapter I · - ATTITUDE OF THE CHURCH TOWARDS HERESY PRIOR TO THE INSTITUTION OF THE INQUISITION
Reading edition
Letter 82 to Theophilus, Bishop of Alexandria, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (ed. P. Schaff), 2nd series, vol. vi, pp. 170 et seq. See Limborch (Chandler’s ed.), pp. 29-30. It has been averred that St. Jerome was in favour of the death penalty, on the score of Epist. 109 ad Ripar. See Lea, vol. i, pp. 214-15, and rejoinder of H. Maillet, L’Église et la répression sanglante de l’hérésie (1909), p. 15.