Excerpt from Bishop Lightfoot and the Early Roman See There is a certain pathos in this investigation; for the subject is the last one that engaged the veteran scholar's attention. And the last words he ever wrote, only three days before his death, form part of an imperfect sentence in a fragment of an essay on Saint Peter in Rome. So far as it goes this fragmentary essay will be of first importance in the inquiry before us; but it has to be supplemented from many parts of his works. To begin then with those points in which Bishop Lightfoot most nearly agrees with Catholic writers. I. On turning to the essay on Saint Peter in Rome we find that it Opens with the recognition of a primacy in St. Peter; and on proceeding further we find that arguments often brought forward against it appear to the author no longer tenable. Even a cursory glance [he says] at the history of the Apostles, so far as it appears in the Gospel records, reveals a certain primacy of St. Peter among the twelve. He holds the first place in all the lists; he has a precedence of responsibility and of temptation he sets the example of moral courage and of moral lapse. Above all he receives Special pastoral charges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.