The Church

The universal body of Christian believers founded by Christ. Referenced extensively in both Jerome's letter and Lacordaire's essay as the spiritual kingdom, the inheritor of the prophets, and the edifice founded by the apostles.

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — Holy rusticity builds up the Church of Christ by the merit of its life

  "it builds up the Church of Christ by the merit of its life"

• II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — Joshua's conquest describes the spiritual kingdoms of the Church and the heavenly Jerusalem

  "describes the spiritual kingdoms of the Church and the heavenly Jerusalem"

• II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — The wars of heretics against the Church are narrated in Kings

  "the smallness of the Church and the wars of heretics against the Church are narrated"

• ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — Christ founds His Church through the apostles

  "He founds His Church through the apostles"

• ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — Peter descends from the upper room and addresses the multitude; the Church is founded

  "addresses the multitude, astonished to hear him"

• ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — The Holy Spirit descends to complete the edifice of the Church

  "the Holy Spirit will descend to complete the edifice of the Church"

• ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — John announces to the Church its transfigurations in suffering and glory until the end of ages

  "the prophecy of the New Testament and of the entire future of the Church on earth"

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

• IV. The Old Testament Surpasses the New in Allegorical Richness — The Church in the Sacred Liturgy selects readings from the Old Testament and pairs them with the Gospel

  "the Church in the Sacred Liturgy everywhere selects readings from the Old Testament, and during the sacred season of fasting always pairs an Epistle from the Old Testament fittingly with the Gospel"

• Chapter II: On the Object and Breadth of Sacred Scripture — The Council of Trent begins the reform of the Church from Sacred Scripture

  "the holy Council of Trent begins the reform of the Church from Sacred Scripture"

• Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers — Schools of sacred Letters established from the very birth of the Church

  "from the very birth of the Church schools of sacred Letters were established"

• Arguments for the Old Testament — The Church sets forth both Testaments equally in rites, libraries, and professorial chairs

  "she, in sacred rites, at table, in libraries, in professorial chairs, sets forth and proposes the Old Testament equally with the New, as their most faithful guardian"

• The Septuagint Translation and Greek Translators — The Church received Theodotion's version in Daniel and follows it

  "whose version in Daniel the Church received and follows"

• The Septuagint Translation and Greek Translators — The Church publicly follows and approves Jerome's Vulgate for a thousand years

  "the Church publicly follows and approves, with few exceptions"

• Prayer to Moses — The kingdom of the Church militant and the triumphant choir of the blessed

  "glory that is to be proclaimed in the kingdom of His Church now militant"

Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses

• Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch — The Church condemns the allegories of Origen

  "the Church, which here condemns the allegories of Origen"

• Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch — The Vulgate translator is the best of all by the judgment of the Church

  "who by the judgment of the Church is the best of all"

• Argumentum — Moses was forming a Church of God from the Synagogue of the Jews

  "was forming and instructing a commonwealth and Church of God from the assembly and Synagogue of the Jews"

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)

• Verse 2: And the earth was without form and void — The Church sings to the Holy Spirit in the blessing of the fonts

  "the Church, in the blessing of the fonts, sings to the Holy Spirit"

• Verse 16: And God Made Two Great Lights — The firmament is symbolically the Holy Church, the pillar and ground of truth

  "the firmament is the Holy Church, which is the pillar and ground of truth, as the Apostle says, 1 Timothy 3:15"

Related

• Jerusalem
• Rome