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as referring to the future state of the Christian Church, and then asks : “What will these men say to this? They dare not assert that they are false : so ponderous is their authority.” He next adduces the words of Christ, addressed to his disciples at the moment he was departing from them: Ye shall be witnesses to me, even to the uttermost parts of the earth.

“Beginning at Jerusalem, his Church was thence to spread among all tongues: and this was prefigured in those, who, receiving the Holy Ghost, began to speak with divers tongues.” Contra Donatistas, passim.

St. Optatus, L. C.-In the preceding century, had urged many similar arguments. De Schism. Donat.

Theodoret, G. C.—“The Jews are now dispersed : but the Church of the Gentiles has been called together from the four quarters of the earth, and her assemblies may be seen wherever there is land and sea.”^[1] Com. in Psal. cvi. v. 3. T. 1. p. 832.

St. Vincent of Lerins, L. C.—See the quotations p. 24 and seqq.

Ephes. v. 25, 26, 27. “ Christ also loved the Church, and delivered himself up for it: That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life: That he might present it to himself, a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, nor any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.”

1 Pet. ii. 9. “But you are a chosen generation, a kingly