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THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH
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house of God, as Augustine in his Exposition of the Creed says,[1] but they should believe that the catholic church is the bride of the Lord Jesus Christ—bride, I say, chaste, incorrupt, and never capable of being corrupted. For St. Cyprian, the bishop and glorious martyr, 24: 1, C. Loquitur (Friedberg, 1: 971, de Unitate Eccles., 5; Ante-Nic. Fathers, 5: 423], says: "The church is one, which is spread abroad far and wide by the increase of her fruitfulness." And he adds: "nevertheless the head is one, the origin is one, and one is the copious mother of fruitfulness. The bride of Christ cannot be defiled. She is incorrupt and chaste. She knows one house and guards with chaste modesty the sanctity of one couch."[2] The holy church

is also the husbandman's vineyard, of which Gregory in his Homilies [Migne, 76: 1154] says: "Our Maker has a vineyard, namely the universal church, which starts from righteous Abel and goes down to the last elect person who shall be born in the end of the world, which bears as many saints as the vineyard sends forth branches." Of the church St. Remigius[3] also says in his Homily Quadragesima on the text: "'The men of Nineveh shall rise up in judgment with this generation and condemn it.' The holy church is made up of two parts, those who have not sinned and those who have ceased to sin." St. Isidore also, in speaking of the church, de Summo Bono, 14 [Migne, 83: 572][4] says: "The holy

  1. ↑ Sermo de symbolo, falsely ascribed to Augustine and given in the Appendix to his Works (Migne, 40: 1196). Three of Augustine's genuine treatises on the creed are given in translation, Nic. Fathers, vol. III, 282–314; 321–333; 369–375.
  2. ↑ Cubilis. The Decretum has cubiculi, bedchamber.
  3. ↑ Remigius, d. about 908, a Benedictine monk of Auxerre, who also taught at Paris. He wrote commentaries on the Psalms, Genesis, etc., and 12 Homilies on Matthew, all found in Migne, 131. He supported Paschasius's view of the change of the eucharistic elements.
  4. ↑ Usually known as the de sententiis, the first Latin compend of theology, and a forerunner of the Sentences of Peter the Lombard and the systems of the summists of the Middle Ages. Isidore, archbishop of Seville (d. 636), exercised a large influence over the scholastic studies of the Middle Ages, especially by his encyclopedic works, the Etymologiæ and the de natura rerum. The former is a general encyclopedia giving curious information derived from
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