...they are the Church, the people united to the priest, and the flock adhering to its qwn shepherd. 1 Whence you ought to know that the bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop; and if any be not with the bishop, that he is not in the Church ; and that they in vain . . . nulla...

...Aaron, and to equal themselves with the priest set over them." And in a letter to Pupianus he says, " The bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop ; and if any one be not with the bishop, he is not in the Church."2 But Cyprian's language on this...

...however without the authority of the bishop; " 3 and, some fifty years later, Saint Cyprian writes : " Whence you ought to know that the bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop, and if any are not with the bishop, they are not in the Church." 4 We read in the life of Saint Simplicius,...

...they are the Church who are a people united to the priest, and the flock which adheres to its pastor.3 Whence you ought to know that the bishop is in the Church, and the 1 \Praposituin is the word thus translated. J 1 Antistitem. [This word occurs in Tertullian, De Ftifa.]...

...they are the Church, the people united to the priest, the flock adhering to its pastor. Whence vou ought to know that the Bishop is in the Church, and the Church in tlic Bishop. 1 Again, writing to Saint Cornelius, Pope,2 he says : — Peter, however, on whom the...

...the people united to its Bishop (sacerdoti), and the flock adhering to its pastor. Whence you should know that the Bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the Bishop. * * Since the Church, which is one Catholic (Church), is not rent or divided, but is certainly connected...

...these tendencies in Africa, where he acted in a childish manner. In a letter to Pupiaiius he says : ' The bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop ; and if any one be not with the bishop, he is not in the Church.' Neander thus expresses himself most...

...the church : and that to be in communion with the episcopate is to be in the church. " Thou oughtest to " know, that the Bishop is in the church and the church in " the Bishop (scire debes, episcopum in ecdesiaesseetecclesiam " in episcopo."§ Here we have the very watchword...

...charge me with having broken up the unity of the Church. The Church is at this moment completely at one. The bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop, and if any one is not with the bishop he is not with the Church." He proceeds to tell Florentius a...

...episcopate is one undivided body, of which each Bishop holds a part (as a member) for the whole." " The Bishop is in the Church and the Church in the Bishop ; " hence no Bishop is or can be, as Bishop, supreme over any other. In connection with this he, again...