Original Douay–Rheims Annotations1 Thessalonians 2

The word of God.

^◦ The Adversaries will have no word of God but that which is written and contained in the Scripture: but here they might learn that all Paul's preaching before he wrote to them, was the very word of God. They might also learn that what so ever the lawful Apostles, Pastors, and Priests of God's Church preach in the unity of the same Church, is to be taken for God's own word, and ought not to be reputed of them for doctrines of men or Pharisaical traditions, as they falsely call canons, precepts, and decrees of holy Church.

• ◦ Not only the written word is the word of God.