...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...

...church is founded upou the bishops, and every act of the church is controlled by these same rulers." " Whence you ought to know that the bishop is in the church, and the church in the bishop ; und if any one be not -with the bishop, that he is not in the church."10 He insisted that God made...

...Epistle of Clement.5 All is explained by the principle which St. Cyprian laid down when he said, ' You ought to know that the bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop.' It would not have been necessary to enter at such length into Dr. Lightfoot's interpretation of this...

...''They are the Church who are a people united to the priest, and the flock which adheres to its pastor. Whence you ought to know that the bishop is in the Church, and the Church is in the bishop, and if any one be not with the bishop, that he is not in the Church " The ability...

...whole 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...

...Hierarchy — Levitic or earlier" (p. 525). The Bishop in the local Church is the element of unity. " The Bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the Bishop, and if anyone is not with the Bishop he is not in the Church" (Ep. 66. 8 ; p. 37). " What the Bishop...

..."They are a Church, who are a people united to a priest, and the flock which adheres to its pastor. Whence you ought to know that 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. The Church which is catholic and...

...functions of the other officers. The essence of the church was thought to be in him. Cyprian says: "The bishop is in the church and the church in the bishop." (3) Presbyters were selected usually by people and clergy and ordained by the bishop. They lose greatly...

...others were saying in his own time. If he holds that ' he who listens to the bishop listens to God ', that ' the bishop is in the Church and the Church in the bishop ', that the bishop judges vice Christi, and that he who disobeys makes himself 'judge of the judge...

...government of the whole church belonged to the episcopate as a whole. Such strong statements appear as " the bishop is in the church and the church in the bishop," " the church is a people united with the priest," " he can not have God as father who has not the church...