anointed with oil, are with reason again anointed with chrism. [Footnote 521: Galatians vi, 10.] [Footnote 522: Proverbs xxxi, 20.] [Footnote 523: Ecclesiasticus xxiv, 15.] [Footnote 524: 2 Corinthians ii, 15.] 19. The thumb also is fortified with chrism, that the laying on of the thumb may profit all men for salvation. 20. Further, in the Old Testament, not only was a priest anointed, but also a king and prophet: as we find in the books of Kings. Whence the Lord enjoined Elias, 'Go return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria; and Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-Meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.' [Footnote 525] Samuel also anointed David to be king. But after that Jesus of Nazareth, 'Whom (as we read in the Acts of the Apostles) God anointed with the Holy Ghost, was anointed with oil above his fellows, [Footnote 526] Who is (according to the Apostle) 'the Head of the Church, which is also His body'; [Footnote 527] after this the anointing of a sovereign was transferred from the head to the arm: whence princes since the time of Christ are not {145} anointed on the head but on the arm, or on the shoulder; by which parts of the body kingly power is aptly represented, as we read, 'and the government was laid upon his shoulder': [Footnote 528 ] to signify the same, Samuel caused the shoulder to be laid before Saul, when he placed him at the head of the table before those who had been bidden. [Footnote 529] But in the case of a bishop the sacramental anointing is applied to the _head_, because in his episcopal office he representeth the Head of the Church, that is, Christ. [Footnote 525: I Kings xix, 15.] [Footnote 526: See Acts iv, 27, and Hebrews i, 9.] [Footnote 527: Ephesians v, 23.] [Footnote 528: Isaiah ix, 6.] [Footnote 529: I Samuel x, 24.]