Страница - 99Страница - 101- Athenagoras, his conversion, [383].
- Augustine, St., his description of the “Connection of Ages” down to Christ, and from him, [xxx-xxxii];
- witnessed the Catholic Church, but did not foresee Christendom, [xxxiv];
- his description of the Two Cities, [xxxvii];
- attests that the shedding of blood in sacrifice from the beginning points to the sacrifice of Christ, [15], [255];
- that the Christian Sacrifice is the principle of unity to Christ’s mystical Body, [276];
- how he understood the “One Episcopate,” [280];
- mentions thousands of bishops as existing in 314 A.D., [216];
- why he saw in the Church the Godhead of its Founder, [280];
- his testimony to the force of the Catholic Church upon his mind, [165], [229];
- the number, names, and offices of heathen deities, [407];
- the seven churches in the apocalypse signify the fulness of the one Church, [174];
- his rule that what has been always kept in the Church, without being ordered by a council, is of apostolical authority, [296];
- complains of judgments as to secular matters being pressed upon him, [306];
- forbids the words of the creed to be written down, [348];
- comments on an answer of St. Felicitas, [451].
- Babylon, type of the kingdom of force, [xxvi];
- identified with heathen Rome by St. Peter and St. John, [xxix].
- Basil, St., places the nature of God outside the conception of number, [406].
- Baur, Die drei ersten Jahrhunderte, [364], [366];
- Constantine’s view of the Church, [416];
- sees the episcopal idea in the angels of the seven churches, [174].
- Bernard, St., his comment on the sheep committed to Peter, [178].
- Bianchi, Potestà della Chièsa, on the honour given by the Gentiles to their priesthood, [60], [63], [64];
- how St. Jerome says that bishops, priests, and deacons succeed the high-priest, priests, and Levites of the Mosaic hierarchy, [191];
- the bishop’s office an ἀρχή, [219];
- selects five points of the Church’s organic growth, [296];
- the Apostles follow their Lord’s example in placing power in a head, [298];
- distribution of episcopal jurisdiction from the beginning, [300];
- on the Church’s hearing and deciding causes, [303];
- on the criminal and penitential forum, [304];
- the Apostles prohibited Christians from pleading before secular tribunals, [306];
- jurisdiction, [307];
- election of bishops in the first three centuries, [309];
- bishops sent out from Rome to convert the nations, [219], [310];
- the Church’s administration of temporal goods, [312], [313].
- Bossuet, his six points of the original human society, [29];
- what he thinks of a State without a religion, [41];
- the Christian people’s relation to Christ, [101], [108].
- Catechetical Schools, at Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, Edessa, [386], [387].
- Chamard, Dom, L’Etablissement du Christianisme, quoted, [217].