Bonaventure

Deuteronomy 17: If you perceive that the judgment before you is difficult and ambiguous, and you see the words of the judges to vary: arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God has chosen. But the man who acts proudly, refusing to obey the command of the priest, that man shall die: there the Gloss says: "Here he grants the faculty of appeal." From this text and Gloss it is gathered that in the old law there was a supreme Pontiff, to whom recourse was to be had in judgments, and whom all were bound to obey. …

Disputed Questions on Evangelical Perfection, Question 4 ↗