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 ST. HILARY, L. C.—“ Christ (teaching from the ship) intimates, that they who are out of the Church, can possess no understanding of the divine word. For the ship is an emblem of the Church, within which, as the word of life is placed and preached, so they who are without, being as barren and useless sands, cannot understand it." Com. in Matt. c. xiii. p. 675. Edit. Bened. Parisiis, 1693.

St. BASIL, G. C.-" The order and government of the Church, is it not, manifestly and beyond contradiction, the work of the Holy Ghost? For he gave to his Church (1 Cor. xii. 28.) first Apostles; secondly Prophets; thirdly Teachers, &c.”—L. de Spiritu. S.c. 16. T.iii. p. 34. Edit. PP. S. Mauri, Paris. 1721, 1722, 1730.

St. EPHREM OF EDESSA, G.C.-“They again must be