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ST. HILARY,^[1] L. C.—“ Christ (teaching from the ship) intimates, that they who are out of the Church, can possess no understanding of the divine word. For the ship is an emblem of the Church, within which, as the word of life is placed and preached, so they who are without, being as barren and useless sands, cannot understand it." Com. in Matt. c. xiii. p. 675. Edit. Bened. Parisiis, 1693.

St. BASIL,^[2] G. C.-" The order and government of the Church, is it not, manifestly and beyond contradiction, the work of the Holy Ghost? For he gave to his Church (1 Cor. xii. 28.) first Apostles; secondly Prophets; thirdly Teachers, &c.”—L. de Spiritu. S.c. 16. T.iii. p. 34. Edit. PP. S. Mauri, Paris. 1721, 1722, 1730.

St. EPHREM OF EDESSA,^[3] G.C.-“They again must be

↑ He was Bishop of Poitiers, a city of France, and the great champion of the orthodox faith, in the Western Church, against the Arian heretics. He wrote a work, in twelve books, on the doctrine of the Trinity; a treatise on Synods, or Councils; and three Discourses against the Arians, addressed to the Emperor Constantius. St. Hilary died in the year 367.
↑ Surnamed the Great, for his admirable eloquence and profound erudition. He was raised to the See of Cæsarea in Cappadocia, and died about the year 379, leaving many valuable works.
↑ Contemporary with the learned men of this age was St. Ephrem, a deacon of Edessa in Syria. He wrote many volumes in the language of his country, which were translated into Greek, during his life; and were in such estimation, that in many churches, as St. Jerom testifies in his catalogue, they were publicly read, after the canonical books of Scripture. They were published in Latin by Gerard Vossius, at Rome, in 1589; and in Greek, by Twaites, at Oxford. In 1732, and seqq. Cardinal Quirini, with the help of Joseph S. Assemanni, gave a new and splendid edition of his works, in six volumes folio. The three first contain the works which had before been published in Greek and Latin; the three latter, those which he found in the Vatican library, in Syriac, with a Latin translation. St. Ephrem died about the year 378. He was the disciple of St. James, Bishop of Nisibis, in Mesopotamia, and his life was written by St. Gregory of Nyssa, brother of St. Basil.

[1] He was Bishop of Poitiers, a city of France, and the great champion of the orthodox faith, in the Western Church, against the Arian heretics. He wrote a work, in twelve books, on the doctrine of the Trinity; a treatise on Synods, or Councils; and three Discourses against the Arians, addressed to the Emperor Constantius. St. Hilary died in the year 367.

[2] Surnamed the Great, for his admirable eloquence and profound erudition. He was raised to the See of Cæsarea in Cappadocia, and died about the year 379, leaving many valuable works.

[3] Contemporary with the learned men of this age was St. Ephrem, a deacon of Edessa in Syria. He wrote many volumes in the language of his country, which were translated into Greek, during his life; and were in such estimation, that in many churches, as St. Jerom testifies in his catalogue, they were publicly read, after the canonical books of Scripture. They were published in Latin by Gerard Vossius, at Rome, in 1589; and in Greek, by Twaites, at Oxford. In 1732, and seqq. Cardinal Quirini, with the help of Joseph S. Assemanni, gave a new and splendid edition of his works, in six volumes folio. The three first contain the works which had before been published in Greek and Latin; the three latter, those which he found in the Vatican library, in Syriac, with a Latin translation. St. Ephrem died about the year 378. He was the disciple of St. James, Bishop of Nisibis, in Mesopotamia, and his life was written by St. Gregory of Nyssa, brother of St. Basil.

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