p. 547.-" According to thee, the Roman Bishop does wrong, who offers Sacrifices to the Lord, over the bodies of Peter and Paul, which bodies we call venerable remains, but you, vile dust. To him their tombs are altars.” Adv. Vigilantium, Ibid. p. 284.-Having treated, at great length, of the superior virtues of the state of celibacy, he says: “And if the layman, or any one of the faithful, is not able to pray, unless he be continent; it is the duty of the Priest, who is constantly to offer Sacrifices for the people, always to pray : but if always to pray, then to be continent.” L. 1. Adv. Jovinianum, T. iv. Pars. ii. p. 175.--He gives the same advice to Bishops: “What must be our opinion concerning the Bishop, who daily, for his own and the sins of the people, is to offer to God pure Sacrifices ?” In c. 1. Ep. ad Titum, T. iv. Pars. 1. p. 418.
CENT. V.
ST. AUGUSTIN, L. C. “Then Abraham (Gen. xiv.) was blessed by Melchisedec, the Priest of the most high God, of whom many and great things are said in the epistle to the Hebrews, (vii.) which epistle most people ascribe to the Apostle Paul, and some deny it. Then first appeared that Sacrifice which now is offered to God, by Christians in all the earth ;(u) and that is fulfilled which long after the fact of Melchisedec, was said by the Prophet of Christ: Thou art a Priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedec. (Ps. cix.) Not according to the order of Aaron : for this order was to be annulled, when the things which those shadows prefigured, should come to pass.” De Civ. Dei. L. xvi.
