to have more than one temporary connection, and amongst the many perhaps the husband, if he will accept such terms: that is the position of the indifferent State. Thus we get from this image of marriage[29] an adequate measure of all the relations which have hitherto subsisted between Church and State. But the purpose of the foregoing chapter has been to set forth the ideal relation between the two Powers intended by God in the Incarnation and the Passion of His Son, and springing out of the junction of these two mysteries of His love. FOOTNOTES: [18] See Die Harmonie des alten und des neuen Testamentes, von Dr. Konrad Martin, p. 190. [19] Philo de Monarchia, lib. 2. Legation to Caius, quoted by Vincenzi, p. 21. [20] Observe in St. Clement's Epistle how it is assumed as undoubted that bishop, priest, and deacon had succeeded to the three orders of the levitical worship. [21] 1 Peter ii. 25; Heb. x. 21, iii. 1, v. 10; Matt. xxiii. 8; Luke xxii. 29; John xx. 21; Matt. xxviii. 20; John xxi. 15. [22] S. Thos. de Reg. Prin., lib. I. c. 14, translated. [23] Taparelli, Saggio teoretico di dritto naturale. [24] Bossuet. [25] See Ephes. iv. 11-16. [26] Bossuet. [27] De Regimine Principis, lib. I. c. xv. [28] Mansi, Collectio Conciliorum, xx. p. 75. [29] I am indebted to Phillipps' "Kirchenrecht" for this illustration of marriage. It is a work to which I am under many obligations. CHAPTER III. THE ACTUAL RELATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE FROM THE DAY OF PENTECOST TO CONSTANTINE. _Transmission of Spiritual Authority from the Person of Our Lord to Peter and the Apostles, as set forth in the New Testament._ The Spiritual Power rests for its origin, so far as all Christians are concerned, upon the transmission of spiritual authority from the Person of our Lord to Peter and the Apostles.