not deny that St. Peter, the chief of the Apostles, established an episcopal chair at Rome: this chair was one, that all others might preserve Unity by the union which they had with it: so, that whoever set up a chair against it, should be a schismatic and an offender. It was in this one chair, which is the first mark of the Church, that St. Peter sat." De Schism. Donat. L. ii. p. 25, 26, 28. Edit. Paris. 1700.
St. AMBROSE,[1] L. C. Commenting on the words of the Apostle to the Ephesians, (c. iv. v. 4.) One body and one spirit, as you are called in one hope of your calling, he says: “ To promote peace and concord, Paul added this; that as the Church is one body, so the people should cultivate union, for the object of our belief is one : One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all. Again he commends Unity, that, as we are called to unity, we should dissent in nothing.m) For if there be one Lord, that is, one Christ, one faith, and one baptism; one God and Father of all —the mind also should be one, and the heart of the people one,'n) since all the things that he enumerates are instances of unity; for they agree in all things." Com. in c. iv. Ep. ud Ephes.[2] T. ii. in Append. p. 240.
In a discourse on the death of his brother Satyrus, having related his escape from a storm, and the anxious desire he felt to return solemn thanks to God, St. Ambrose adds: “When he got to land, he sent for the Bishop of the place;
- ↑ He died in the year 397, having held the See of Milan twenty years, with great profit to the Church; he edified by his exalted virtues the western provinces, and instructed them by his writings. These are numerous, comprising Commentaries on many parts of Scripture, and Moral Treatises.
- ↑ This Commentary on the Epistles of St. Paul, though published among the works of St. Ambrose, is generally believed not to have been written by him, but by his contemporary Hilarius, a Roman deacon.
