The next word to be considered is _convenire_, which may be rendered either _resort_ or _agree_; and I confess I should have been disposed, with Massuet, to render it _agree_, were it not for a perfectly parallel passage in the 32d _Oration_ of Gregory of Nazianzum, delivered at the first council of Constantinople. Speaking of Constantinople, he says, εἰς ἣν τὰ πανταχόθεν ἄκρα συντρέχει, καὶ ὅθεν ἄρχεται ὡς ἐμπορίου κοινοῦ τῆς πίστεως. Here Constantinople is spoken of _then_ under the very same terms as Rome by Irenæus, as _the common repository of the faith_: other parts of the Christian world are said to be _governed_ (ἄρχεται) by it; and distant Churches are said to _resort from all quarters_: συντρέχει πανταχόθεν. Are not these words an exact parallel to the _convenire_ and _undique_ of the translator of Irenæus? I therefore feel bound to give _convenire_ the sense of _resort_. The next word to be noticed is _undique_, the _application_ of which is disputed; some, as Barrow(146) and Faber(147), applying it only to the immediate neighbourhood of Rome, i. e. Italy and the adjacent parts of Gaul; others, and of course the Romanists, to the whole Christian Church. According to the former plan, the clause “hoc est ... fideles” is a limitation of the expression “omnem ecclesiam,” confining it to the Churches immediately surrounding Rome; and consequently the pre‐eminence of the Church of Rome would be equally narrowed by this interpretation of _undique_. I am far from contending that this interpretation is not correct; and the very fact of the passage admitting it, without any force whatever, shows how little the papal cause can be made to rest upon it. But as Gregory, in the parallel passage I have quoted, uses the term πανταχόθεν, I am disposed to take _undique_ as its representative; the more especially as we have seen that, whatever influence it gives to Rome, the selfsame influence had Constantinople in an after age. There are one or two more words still to be mentioned. _Necesse est_ is one of them. It may imply that it is the _duty_ of every Church to resort to Rome; but its more natural and usual meaning is, that, _as a matter of course_, Christians from all parts, and not strictly the Churches themselves, were led to resort thither by the superior eminence of that Church.