“SEEING there are many who think they hold the opinion of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors, yet as the teaching of the church, transmitted in orderly succession from the Apostles, and remaining in the churches to the present day, is still preserved, that alone is to be accepted as truth which differs in no respect from ecclesiastical and apostolic tradition.”
~Origen: On First Principles, Bk. 1, Preface, 2.