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Thank you. And so getting a little bit into the structure, I'll develop this a little bit later, but here is his basic argument on how he understands the development of papacy through history. He's going to

divide the popes into three classes. And this is his quote. The popes of the first class were

angels of God and saints in life and doctrine. Those of the second were men who were

prone to fall, but those of the third were, in the true sense of the term, devils in the flesh.

And this is how he understands the development of the papacy. So it's not a development of church

history. It's not a critique of church history. It's just on the

Pope's, but this is how he divides it up. And he's going to take this up until the 16th century.

Let's get into, I guess, the structure. This is his major argument that

chapel history can be divided into three sections, three major phases.

The first one is from the beginning until the year 320.

Now, when Valera speaks of the beginning, he actually doesn't speak of Peter.

And I have to go back and read this, but I'm pretty sure he says that Peter never even made it to Rome.

He's one of those guys.

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