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Am. Thierry, Tableau de l'Empire Romain, p. 412.
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Zach. ii. 11, Is. ii. 2, Mich. iv. 1, compared with Titus ii. 14 and 1 Pet. ii. 9.
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Ep. ad Diognetum, 5, 6.
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S. Justin Martyr, Tryphon, sec. 135, 42, 116; where he refers to and explains the vision of the high-priest Jesus in the prophet Zacharias iii. 1.
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ὡς υἱὸν Θεοῦ, Θεὸν ἐληλυθότα ἐν ἀνθρωπίνῃ ψυχῇ καὶ σώματι. Cont. Cels. iii. 29.
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Ibid. viii. 74.
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Cont. Cels. viii. 75.
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Ibid. vi. 48, p. 670.
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Cont. Cels. vi. 79, p. 692.
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Κωλύοντος τοῦ Θεοῦ τὸ πᾶν ἐκπολεμηθῆναι αὐτῶν ἔθνος; συστῆναι γὰρ αὐτὸ ἐβούλετο καὶ πληρωθῆναι πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν τῆς σωτηρίου ταύτης καὶ εὐσεβεστάτης διδασκαλίας. Cont. Cels. iii. 8. It must be remembered that Celsus in the passage to which this is an answer had asserted that the Christians had arisen out of the Jews through a sedition; which makes the train of thought pertinent. For Origen is contrasting the losses which occur through exterminating wars, such as a sedition, or civil war, excites, with the losses to the Christian body through martyrdom. The comparison therefore lies between the whole number of Christians viewed en masse and the martyrs. Lasaulx remarks that this was written before the Decian persecution.
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Preface to the Oxford edition of S. Cyprian's treatise on the Unity of the Church.
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De Unitate, iii. &c.
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Epist. 70 and 73.
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τῇ γὰρ ἐλπίδι ἐσώθημεν.
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Ep. 1, Oxford translation.
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S. Irenæus, lib. iv. 33 g.
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Dan. ii. 44. Compare Apoc. i. 9. ὁ ἀδελφὸς ὑμῶν καὶ συγκοινωνὸς ἐν τῇ θλίψει καὶ ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ καὶ ὑπομονῇ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.
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Κατανοήσατε τὸν ἀπόστολον καὶ ἀρχιερέα τῆς ὁμολογίας ἡμῶν Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν. Heb. iii. 1.
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Thus S. Gregory the Great wrote to Eulogius, Patriarch of Alexandria, that the three original patriarchal Sees were all Sees of Peter: “Cum multi sint Apostoli, pro ipso tamen principatu sola Apostolorum Principis Sedes in auctoritate convaluit, quæ in tribus locis unius est.” Epist. lib. vii. 40. The Patriarchal authority is a derivation from the Primacy, which is the well-head.
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Κηρύσσων τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τῆς βασιλείας. Matt. iv. 23.
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S. Dionys. Alex. Ep. 2. Gallandi, iii. 512.
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Answer of Pope Innocent I. to the Council of Carthage in 416, among the letters of S. Augustine.
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Constant. Epist. Rom. Pontif. p. 1037.
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Ephes. iv., written during S. Paul's imprisonment at Rome.
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This text is continually used by S. Augustine against the Donatists, as containing an express divine prophecy that the one Catholic Church should continue to the end of the world. The Gospel of the Kingdom, and the Gospel without the Kingdom, are ideas far as the poles apart.