Ministerial Priesthood

HAD you the purity of an angel and the sanctity of St. John the Baptist, you would not be worthy to receive or administer this Sacrament. It is not because of any human meriting that a man consecrates

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Vid. Calv. Ep. de Fugiend. Illic. Sacris. Item, De Sacerdotiis Eccles. Papal. Item, De Necessitate Reform. Eccles. Item, Epist. ad Sadoletum OF THE POPISH MASS. HOW IT NOT ONLY PROFANES, BUT ANNIHILA

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28. There remain the three orders which they call major. Of these, what they call the subdeaconate was transferred to this class, after the crowd of minor began to be prolific. But as they think they

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Hymn XVIII. 1. O thou who art made priest after thy master, the illustrious after the excellent, the chaste after the grave, the watchful after the abstinent, thy master from thee has not departed; i

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51. Accordingly, the Son came to the servant; not that the Son might be presented by the servant, but that by the Son the servant might present to His Lord Priesthood and Prophecy, to be laid up with

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For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

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Now if there were perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, a

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(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, “The Lord swore and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order o

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who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

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Introduction to Oration II. It is generally agreed that this oration was not intended for oral delivery. Its object was to explain and defend S. Gregory’s recent conduct, which had been severely crit

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A man. A Greek scholiast says that this was Origen (ob. a.d. 235), who gives this interpretation in his commentary on the prophecy of Jonah. Elias says that he had read it in the commentary of Methodi

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8. I was influenced besides by another feeling, whether base or noble I do not know, but I will speak out to you all my secrets. I was ashamed of all those others, who, without being better than ordin

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18. Place and time and age and season and the like are the subjects of a physician’s scrutiny; he will prescribe medicines and diet, and guard against things injurious, that the desires of the sick ma

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Those who, &c. μιγάδας, cf. xxi., 10, where μοναδικοὶ and οἱ τῆς ἐρηυίας are distinguished from μιγάδες and οἱ τῆς ἐπιμιξίας. Clémencet here holds that οἱ τῆς ἐρημίας are hermits as distinguished from

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46. And who is sufficient for these things? For we are not as the many, able to corrupt 2 Cor. ii. 16, 17. Isai. i. 22. Ps. civ. 15. Ventriloquists. Isai. viii. 19, “Wizards.” Ezek. iii. 20; xxxi

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2 Cor. xii. 2, 4. Isa. xix. 11. Ib. ix. 16. Ib. iii. 12. Ib. iii. 4. Ib. iii. 7. Ib. ix. 15. Ib. i. 23. Ib. viii. 21. Ib. xl. 2. Ib. vi. 6, 7. 57. Is the undertaking then so serious and lab

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73. But this speed, in its untrustworthiness and excessive haste, is in danger of being like the seeds which fell upon the rock, S. Luke viii. 6. S. Matt. xiii. 5. Ib. vii. 26. Eccles. x. 16. Pro

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Ps. xl. 2; lxix. 2. Rom. vii. 23. 92. What is it that has induced this fear in me, that, instead of supposing me to be needlessly afraid, you may highly commend my foresight? I hear from Moses himse

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Prov. xiv. 30 [LXX.]. S. Matt. ix. 12. 47. He is the good Physician, Who has taken upon Him our infirmities, has healed our sicknesses, and yet He, as it is written, honoured not Himself to be made

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The ruler should always be chief in action, that by his living he may point out the way of life to those that are put under him, and that the flock, which follows the voice and manners of the shepherd

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