Tradition kinds — Divine, Apostolic, Ecclesiastical; confirmation chrism as Divine
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Traditions get many partitions.The one that matters here turns on the authors to whom each kind is traced.
Roman doctors name three: Divine, Apostolic, and Ecclesiastical.
Divine are those Christ himself taught and instituted ἀγράφως (without writing), yet nowhere appear in sacred Scripture.
Their stock case is the oil-and-balsam anointing in confirmation, counted among the new-law Sacraments — for they grant every new-law Sacrament must come immediately from Christ.
Latin
XII. Porro traditiones varie partiuntur. Sed partitio quae hic maxime consideranda est, illa est quae sumitur ab authoribus ad quos referendae sunt. Dicunt enim traditiones, alias esse Divinas, alias Apostolicas, & alias Ecclesiasticas. Divinas traditiones vocant ea, quae, ut existimant, Christus ipse ἀγράφως docuit & instituit: nec tamen usquam in sacris literis inveniuntur. Hujusmodi traditio ipsis est unctio illa ex oleo & balsamo quae fit in confirmatione, quam inter Sacramenta novae legis numerant. Agnoscunt enim omnia novae legis Sacramenta immediate a Christo institui debuisse.