as referring to the future state of the Christian Church, and then asks : “What will these men say to this? They dare not assert that they are false : so ponderous is their authority.” He next adduces the words of Christ, addressed to his disciples at the moment he was departing from them: Ye shall be witnesses to me, even to the uttermost parts of the earth.
Beginning at Jerusalem, his Church was thence to spread among all tongues: and this was prefigured in those, who, receiving the Holy Ghost, began to speak with divers tongues.” Contra Donatistas, passim.
St. OPTATUS, L. C.-In the preceding century, had urged many similar arguments. De Schism. Donat.
THEODORET, G. C.-" The Jews are now dispersed : but the Church of the Gentiles has been called together from the four quarters of the earth, and her assemblies may be seen wherever there is land and sea." Com. in Psal. cvi. v. 3. T. 1. p. 832.
ST. VINCENT OF LERINS, L. C.-See the quotations p. 24 and seqq.
SANCTITY OF THE CHURCH.
SCRIPTURE.
Ephes. v. 25, 26, 27. “ Christ also loved the Church, and delivered himself up for it: That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life: That he might present it to himself, a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, nor any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
1 Pet. ii. 9. “But you are a chosen generation, a kingly
