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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LX: The Fourth Crusade
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vii.
p.

362--440.)] [Footnote 4: Before the shrine of St.Peter he placed two shields of the weight of 94 1/2 pounds of pure silver; on which he inscribed the text of both creeds, (utroque symbolo,) pro amore et _cautela_ orthodoxae fidei, (Anastas.

in Leon.III.in Muratori, tom.iii.pars.i.p.

208.) His language most clearly proves, that neither the _filioque_, nor the Athanasian creed were received at Rome about the year 830.] [Footnote 5: The Missi of Charlemagne pressed him to declare, that all who rejected the _filioque_, or at least the doctrine, must be damned.
All, replies the pope, are not capable of reaching the altiora mysteria qui potuerit, et non voluerit, salvus esse non potest, (Collect.

Concil.
tom.ix.p.


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