[43] Matt. xv. 24; x. 5; Acts i. 8. [44] St. Cyprian, Ep. 69. St. Jerome, dialogue con. Luciferianos. [45] Acts viii. 14. [46] Passaglia, p. 174. [47] Eph. iii. 5; Mal. i. 11. [48] Acts ix. 32. [49] Bede on this text. [50] Apoc. vii. 9. [51] Haer. 28, s. 3. [52] Hom. 24 on the Acts, n. 1. [53] John iv. 2. [54] Passaglia, p. 181. [55] Acts xi. 1-4. [56] On Acts, Hom. 24, n. 2. [57] Lib. 9. Ep. 39. [58] Passaglia. p. 188. [59] Acts v. 8. 3. [60] On Acts, Hom. 12. [61] Passaglia, p. 190. [62] Acts ix. 31. [63] Titus i. 5. [64] Acts xv. 36. [65] Hist. Ecc. Lib. 3, ch. 23. [66] So called by Arnobius, on psalm 138. [67] On Acts, Hom. 21, n. 2. [68] Passaglia, p. 192. [69] Acts xv. 6. [70] Hom. 32, n. 1. [71] Hom. 32, Tom. 9, p. 250. [72] Acts xv. 28; xvi. 4. [73] De Pudicitia, c. 21. [74] S. Jerome, Ep. 75, inter Augustinianas, Tom. 2, p. 171. [75] Theodoret, Ep. 113, Tom. 3, 984. [76] Passaglia, p. 197. [77] On Acts, Hom. 26, n. 2. [78] Passaglia, p. 198. [79] 1 Pet. v. 3. [80] Princeps hujus fuit decreti, says St. Jerome to St. Augustine, Ep. 75, n. 8. inter Augustinianas. [81] Numbers xvi. 3; xii. 2. [82] Acts vi. 1; xv. 2; xi. 2. [83] Acts xi. 18. [84] Eph. i. 22; iv. 15; v. 23, 27. [85] Col. i. 18. CHAPTER VI. TESTIMONY OF S. PAUL TO S. PETER'S PRIMACY. In leaving the Gospels and the Acts we quit those writings in which we should expect, beforehand, that divine government to be set forth, which it pleased our Lord to establish for His church. In exact accordance with such expectation we have seen the institution of the apostolic college, and of S. Peter's Primacy over it, described in the Gospels, and the history in the Acts of its execution and practical working. Both institution and execution have been complete in their parts, and wonderfully harmonise with each other. But in the other inspired writings of the New Testament, comprising the letters of various Apostles, and specially of S. Paul, we had no reason to anticipate any detailed mention of Church government. The fourteen Epistles of S. Paul were written incidentally on different subjects, no one of them leading him to set forth, with any exact specification, that divine hierarchy under which it was the pleasure of the Lord that His Church should grow up. Moreover, it so happened that the [1]circumstances of S. Paul's calling to be an Apostle, and the opposition which he sometimes met with from those attached to Jewish usages, caused him to be a great defender of the Apostolic dignity, as bestowed upon himself, and continually to assert that he received it not of men, but of God. Had there, then, been no recognition at all of S. Peter's superior rank in the Apostolic College to be found in his writings, it would not have caused surprise to those who consider the above reasons. And proportionably strong and effective is the recognition of that rank, which, though incidental, does occur, and that several times. If, then, S.