Quote:Well, Brian, there I was referring to the Churches of Africa, Asia and Europe as Churches. The Apostles of Christ founded Churches wherever they went. St. Thomas the Apostle came to my Country, India. I've seen his Tomb in St. Thomas Mount, Chennai, not far from where I lived. Likewise, St. Peter and St. Paul preached in Rome. St. Matthew in Ethiopia. One St. James in Spain. Another St. James, also called the Just, and Cousin Brother of Jesus, in Jerusalem itself. And so on and so forth with all the Apostles. Now, these Churches, whether of Africa, of Asia, or of Europe, preserved the historical memory of what the Apostles did, spoke, wrote, handed down etc. St. Irenaeus mentions this in refuting Gnosticism, that no Church founded by the Apostles ever heard of such a thing as the Gnostics claimed, or said like that; rather, they all preached the Apostolic Teaching, and handed down the Tradition they received from Apostles.
I see, or I think I see. Tertullian didn't get his skinny directly from the Apostles, but from apostles of the Apostles. In legal and historical parlances, that's called 'hearsay'.
Boru
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