18.

 Write out a) the quotation from the patriarchal letter of 1848 to the pope, and b) Khomiakov's comment on this statement.

            Patriarchal letter of 1848 to the pope:

Among us, neither patriarchs nor councils could ever introduce new teaching, for the guardian of religion is the very body of the Church, that is, the people itself.

Khomiakov's comment to this statement:

The pope is greatly mistaken in supposing that we consider the ecclesiastical hierarchy to be the guardian of dogma. The case is quite different. The unvarying constancy and the unerring truth of Christian dogma does not depend upon any hierarchical order; it is guarded by the totality, by the whole people of the Church, which is the Body of Christ.