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Appendix

General Notes

Revisions adopted by the E. G. White

Trustees November 19, 1956, December 6,

1979, and January 8, 1993

Page 50. Titles.—In a passage which is

included in the Roman Catholic Canon Law,

or Corpus Juris Canonici, Pope Innocent III

declares that the Roman pontiff is “the

vicegerent upon earth, not of a mere man, but

of very God;” and in a gloss on the passage it

is explained that this is because he is the

vicegerent of Christ, who is “very God and

very man.” See Decretales Domini Gregorii

Papae IX (Decretals of the Lord Pope Gregory

IX), liber 1, de translatione Episcoporum, (on

the transference of Bishops), title 7, ch. 3;

Corpus Juris Canonici (2d Leipzig Ed., 1881),

col. 99; (Paris, 1612), tom. 2, Decretales, col.