(died 107), in his epistle to the Roman Church, calls her προκαθημένητῆς ἀγάπης, which Mohler (Patrologie, 1:144) and other Catholic scholars explain as "head of the love-union of Christendom," while Protestant writers understand it as only meaning "...
Without entering into a discussion of the meaning of this famous passage, we may here quote from Abbott's Commentary on the New Testament a statement of the Roman Catholic interpretation, and the grounds on which that view is rejected by all Protestants: ...