[Footnote 118: It has been found advisable to print the word church in the following pages with a great or a small initial letter, according as 'The Blessed Company of all Faithful People,' or the material building, were intended.]
[Footnote 119: Psalm lxviii (Exsurgat Deus), 6.]
2. The Greek ecclesia is in Latin translated by convocation because it calleth men to itself: the which title doth better befit the spiritual than the material church.
The material typifieth the spiritual Church: as shall be explained when we treat of its consecration. [Footnote 120] Again, the Church is called Catholic, that is universal, because it hath been set up in, or spread over, all the world, because the whole multitude of the faithful ought to be in one congregation, or because in the Church is laid up the doctrine necessary for the instruction of all.
[Footnote 120: See below, chapter vi.]
3. It is also called in Greek synagoga, in Latin congregatio, which was the name chosen by the Jews for their places of worship: for to them the term synagogue more appropriately belongeth, though it be also applied to a church. But the Apostles never call a church by this title, perhaps for the sake of distinction.
4. The Church Militant is also called Sion: because, amidst its wanderings, it expecteth the promise of a heavenly rest: for Sion signifieth expectation. But the Church Triumphant, our future home, the land of peace, is called Jerusalem: for Jerusalem signifieth the vision of peace. [Footnote 121]
[Footnote 121: So the hymn in the Parisian Breviary, for the dedication of a church:
Urbs beata, vera pacis
Visio, Jerusalem.]
Also, the church is called the House of God: also, sometimes,
