The celebrated question: is Scripture's authority supreme or borrowed?
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From this rises the famous question on Scripture's authority.We say Scripture's authority among us is supreme, not borrowed from elsewhere: above itself Scripture has no revelation, and no other principle of faith by which it can be proved.
The Pontificii say Scripture's authority hangs on the Church's: they take the Church's testimony for a principle of faith above Scripture, one by which Scripture must be proved so that the Church may publicly settle its standing.
Latin
XXIV. Atque inde exurgit celebris illa quaestio de Scripturae authoritate. Nobis asserentibus Scripturae authoritatem apud nos esse summam, nec aliunde mutuam sumptam; quoniam Scriptura supra se nullam habet revelationem, aut aliud quoddam fidei principium quo probari possit. Pontificiis vero contendentibus authoritatem Scripturae ab authoritate Ecclesiae pendere: quoniam existimant Ecclesiae testimonium fidei quoddam principium esse Scriptura superius, et quo Scriptura probari indigeat, ut de ea publice in Ecclesia constet.