of true and false Teachers.

that you will listen with joy and benevolence to me today, during the act of the Theological Doctorate, as I prove, from the very reason and authority of Teachers, that legitimate Teachers of Theology are to be found in no assembly of Sectarians those who have broken away from the Church, but only in the Roman Catholic Church, and that consequently the truth of doctrine is found only there.

And truly, it does not escape me how difficult a thing it is to discern a true teacher of divine matters from a false one, especially for those who are not themselves Teachers, or at least learned. For just as we call "false gold," for example, that which seems to be gold but is not; and likewise "false coin," which appears to be true and genuine but is not in the least: so are those called "false teachers" who appear to be true and legitimate teachers but are nothing of the sort; that is, those who appear to be interpreters of divine meaning and doctrine, but are in fact only interpreters of their own. How many are there who do not judge a matter by what appears? The divine meaning of Holy Scripture is, as it were, enclosed within words and letters. The false teachers, having rejected the divine meaning, substitute their own opinion and, as Origen says, place it like an abomination Homily 29 on Matthew. in the holy place. Thus it certainly happens that