inter omnes tamen quas vel in ecclesia, vel in universo hominum genere reperimus tonsuras, nullam magis sequendam nobis amplectendamque iure dixerim, ea quam in capite suo gestabat ille, cui se confitenti Dominus ait: Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam, et portae inferni non praevalebunt adversus eam; et tibi dabo claves regni caelorum.
yet notwithstanding, amongst all kinds of tonsure which we find either in the Church or among mankind at large, I may rightly say that none is rather to be followed and embraced of us than that which he wore on his head, to whom the Lord said, when he confessed Him to be Christ: Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it; and to thee I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven.
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