[Rampolla]

I didn't allude to anything but simply posted the source of Augustine's remarks. With respect to unwritten tradition, St. Paul refers to it in II Thessalonians 2:15: "...(S)tand firm and hold to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter." The event of Tradition started orally and then it began to be written down so you have the oral tradition and the written tradition. The bottom line it's not everyone picking and choosing for themselves inventing doctrine rather than receiving it via apostolic authority.

[blue-duncan]

" The bottom line it's not everyone picking and choosing for themselves inventing doctrine rather than receiving it via apostolic authority."

But that is exactly what Augustine did in his arguments with the Manichaeans and Donatists. None of the doctrines used against them had been articulated until Augustine interpreted them from the scriptures, just as believers can today by the illumination of the Holy Spirit.