A brief pause ensued; the preacher slowly turned over the leaves of the Bible, and at last, folding his hand down upon the proper page, said: "Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the first chapter of Jonah — 'And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.'"
He kept a whole row of pipes there ready loaded, stuck in a rack, within easy reach of his hand; and, whenever he turned in, he smoked them all out in succession, lighting one from the other to the end of the chapter; then loading them again to be in readiness anew.
1983, Revue théologique de Louvain - Volume 14, page 127:
il conclut : « No pope, no collection but the masters who served the one and commented on the other ultimately determined the content of this decretal chapter».
1963, Charles Duggan, Twelfth-century Decretal Collections and Their Importance in English History, page 127:
At least thirty-two of the first forty-seven decretal chapters were received by English ecclesiastics,
2021, David T. Orique, The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias, page 97:
From canon law, he cited Gratian's Decretum, Gregory's Decretales, the Sexto and Clementines Decretales, and the Extravagantes, and specifically referred to “the rules for understanding the Law” in a decretal chapter on Propterea.
