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 three general Councils, of Constantinople in 381; of Ephesus in 431 ; and of Chalcedon in 451; which expressions and facts go to prove the deference which, on those great occasions, was shewn, by the Prelates of the Eastern Churches, to the name and authority of the Roman Bishop. See Prop. xüi.

ST. JEROM, L. C.—“I am,” he says in a letter to Pope Damasus, written from the deserts of Syria; “I am following no other than Christ, united to the Communion of Holiness, that is, to the chair of Peter. I know, that the Church is founded upon that Rock. Whoever eateth the Lamb out of that House, is a profane man. Whoever is not in the ark, shall perish by the flood. But forasmuch as being retired into the desert of Syria, I cannot receive the Sacrament at your hands, I follow your colleagues, the Bishops of Egypt. I do not know Vitalis ; I do not communicate with Meletius; Paulinus is a stranger to me (men of suspected faith): He that gathereth not with you, scattereth.”rd) Ep. xiv. ad Damasum. T. iv. p. 19.—In a second letter to the same Damasus, he repeats the same assertion : “I cease not to proclaim : He is mine, who remains united to the chair of Peter.”(6) Ep. xv. Ibid. p. 22.

St. AUGUSTIN, L. C.-See the passage, p. 71.

COUNCIL OF MILEVIS, L. C.-In the year 416, a Synod having been assembled at Milevis, in Africa, to oppose the errors of Pelagius, the Fathers, sixty-one in number, (among whom was the great St. Augustin,) wrote to the Roman