Note 8 — Chapter I · ORIGIN OF THE TEMPORAL POWER OF THE POPES
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Quod rex delinquit, soli Deo reus est.—Cassiodoi'us, Si quis de nobis, 0 rex, justitiæ tram item transcendere volu-erit, à te corrigi potest: si verô tu excesseris, quis te corripiet, quis te condemnabit, nisi is qui se pronunciavit esse justitiam? —Gregor, Turon. ad Chilpericum. Reges non sunt à nobis graviter exasperandi, divino judiciô sunt reservandi.—Yvo. Carnot. See Bossuet’s reflections on these various texts of Scripture, and of the fathers. De(. Cler. Gail. par. 2. b. 6. ch. 13, 18, 26, 31, 32.