Oh how Catholics love to use that verse to try to say that “by word” is somehow a different teaching than “by our epistle”. If I read the Bible to someone who is illiterate they have received the epistle by word. If I tell someone verbatim what the Bible says they have heard it by word. The subtle deceit of Satan is truly heinous.
I have yet to have ONE Catholic take me up on the request to show what traditions of Paul’s he was referring to when he told them to hold fast to the traditions he passed on to them, how they know what those traditions were, and how they could verify that it was passed down unchanged from Paul.
They have never provided sources for that information.
All I get is *crickets*......
Oh how non-Catholics love to use that verse to try to say that “by word” means “by our epistle”.