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 as having been founded by the Apostles; teaching the doctrine which they had delivered, and exhibiting all the marks of a divine origin. It is unnecessary to offer extracts.

ST. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM, G.C. “When the Jews, owing to their treatment of Jesus Christ, had forfeited the favour of Heaven, he established our Holy Christian Church, of which he said to Peter: Thou art Peter; and upon this Rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. (Matt. xvi. 18.) Of the two Churches David prophesied : of that which was to be cut down, saying, I have hated the assembly of evil doers: (Psal. xxv.) but of the second he adds: I have loved the beauty of thy house, O Lord; and again : In the assembly will I bless thee. (Ibid.) For that in Judea being cast off, the Churches of Christ were extended through all the earth,'”) of which the Prophet again says: Sing to the Lord a new song; let his praise be in the assembly of the saints. (Psal. cxlix.) And of this second Catholic Church, St. Paul writes to Timothy: That thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” (1 Tim. iii. 15) Catech. xviii. N. XXV. p. 297.

St. EPIPHANIUS, G. C. “Truly all heresies are the gates of hell,'s) which cannot prevail against the rock.” In Ancorat. T. ii. p. 14.

St. AMBROSE, L. C. “ Zabulon, it is said, shall dwell near the sea, that, himself free from danger, he may see the shipwrecks of others, and behold them floating about in the sea of this world, which is carried about with every wind of doctrine ; (Ephes. iv.) whilst he remains firm by the root of faith. Thus it is with the Holy Church; rooted and founded in faith, she beholds the storms of heretics, and the shipwrecks of the Jews. She dwells in the neighbourhood of