Institutes of Elenctic Theology by Francis Turretin
The Jews preceded the papists in the reception of traditions, dividing the law into the written and oral. Moses, having received the law on Mt. Sinai, delivered it to Joshua, he to the seventy elders, they to the prophets, they again to the great synagogue and so on until at last it was committed to writing in the Talmud. Hence various deuteroseis ('traditions') prevailed among them as calling forth rebukes from Christ'an artifice of Satan to draw the Jews more easily from the written law by this law. By the samedevice, he has caused the papists to contrive a twofold word of God: one written, the other not written, as if Christ and his apostles taught many things by the spoken word which they did not commit to writing. Hencearose unwritten traditions (so-called agraphoi), not because they never have been written, but because (according to Bellarmine) they were not written by the original author or because they are not found written in any apostolic book.
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