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 Since among not a few scholarly men [²] it often happens that there is called into doubt, whether to affirm pertinaciously, that Our Redeemer and [³] Lord Jesus Christ and His Apostles did not have anything individually, nor even in common, is to be censured as heretical, diverse [⁴] and opposite things being opined concerning it, We, desiring to put an end to this contest, after [having taken] the counsel of our brothers [the cardinals] by this perpetual edict do declare that a pertinacious assertion of this kind, when sacred scriptures, which assert in very many places that they had not a few things, expressly contradict it, and when it supposes openly that the same sacred scripture, through which certainly the articles of orthodox faith are proven in regards to the aforesaid things, contains the ferment of falsehood, and consequently, as much as regards these things, emptying all faith in them, it renders the Catholic Faith doubtful and uncertain, taking away its demonstration, is respectively to be censured erroneous and heretical.