Church and State as Seen in the Formation of ChristendomAllies, T. W. (Thomas William)
Religion
Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom
Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)
Church and state; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Religion and state
[32] 1 Cor. iv. 1: ὑπηρέτας χριστοῦ καὶ οἰκονόμους μυστηρίων Θεοῦ.
[33] 1 Tim. ii. 7; 2 Tim. i. 11.
[34] Isaias vi. 1; Ezech. iv. 32; Dan. vii. 9.
[35] Compare the strikingly similar and almost contemporary passage in
the letter of St Ignatius to the Ephesians: "For Jesus Christ, our
inseparable life, is the mind of the Father, as also the bishops,
appointed throughout the earth, are in the mind of Christ."
[36] Baur, Kirchengeschichte der drei ersten Jahrhunderte, p. 272,
remarks, "Nicht ohne Grund hat man daher schon in den Engeln, an welche
die den sieben Gemeinden der Apocalypse bestimmten Schreiben gerichtet
sind, einen Ausdruck der Episcopatsidee gesehen—da die den sieben Engeln
entsprechenden Sterne alle zusammen in der Hand Christi sind, in ihm also
ihre Einheit haben, so kann durch den Engel, welchen jede Gemeinde hat,
nichts anders ausgedrückt sein, als die Beziehung, die sie mit Christus
als dem einen Haupte aller Gemeinden und der ganzen Kirche verknüpft."
[37] "Ideo septem scribi ecclesias ut una Catholica septiformi gratiæ
spiritu plena designetur."—_Cornel. a L. in loco._ "Wherefore in the
Apocalypse the whole Church is represented by the sevenfold number of the
Churches."—_St. Greg._, 1. B. 23, _Morals. on Job_. "Propter quod et
Johannes Apostolus ad septem scribit ecclesias, eo modo se ostendens ad
unius plenitudinem scribere."—_St. Aug. de Civ. Dei_, xvii. 4.
[38] John xv. 16.
[39] Heb. xiii. 20; John x. 11, xxi. 16; Ps. ii. 9: Sept. Matt. ii. 6, in
translating Mic. v. 2, where its equivalent is ἄρχοντα τοῦ Ισραὴλ; Apoc.
xix. 15; the same word, ποιμαίνειν, is used in all these passages.
[40] De Consideratione ad Eugenium Papam, 2, 8.
CHAPTER IV.
THE ACTUAL RELATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE FROM THE DAY OF PENTECOST TO
CONSTANTINE.
_The Transmission of Spiritual Authority as witnessed in the History of
the Church from A.D. 29 to A.D. 325._
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