Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom. Allies Thomas William

others by the bonds of such a command as this. That power belongs solely to God, the Creator of all things and the Lawgiver; and those who exercise it must exercise it as communicated to them by God. ‘There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to destroy and to deliver’ (James iv. 12).”

9

Bossuet sums up the state in these six points: Politique, &c. Art. 1.

10

Welsh, i. e., foreigner, not speaking a language understood.

11

St. Augustine.

12

Politique, &c., lib. vii. art. 2.

13

Nägelsbach, Homerische Theologie, 275.

14

See Bianchi, vol. iii. ch. ii.

15

Ἵεροδιδάσκαλοι εἴτε ἱερόνομοι, εἴτε ἱεροφύλακες, εἴτε, ὡς ἡμεῖς ἀξιοῦμεν, ἱεροφάνται. Dionys. Halic., 1. 2.

16

Bianchi, Sect. VI.

17

Bianchi, p. 23.

18

See Die Harmonie des alten und des neuen Testamentes, von Dr. Konrad Martin, p. 190.

19

Philo de Monarchia, lib. 2. Legation to Caius, quoted by Vincenzi, p. 21.

20

Observe in St. Clement’s Epistle how it is assumed as undoubted that bishop, priest, and deacon had succeeded to the three orders of the levitical worship.

21

1 Peter ii. 25; Heb. x. 21, iii. 1, v. 10; Matt. xxiii. 8; Luke xxii. 29; John xx. 21; Matt. xxviii. 20; John xxi. 15.

22

S. Thos. de Reg. Prin., lib. I. c. 14, translated.