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But even if we grant that spiritual gift to be of a wholly special kind, it nevertheless will go hard with the unbroken succession solely through episcopal hands. It certainly does not come from the Apostles exclusively ; for how often during the gradual development of the Episcopate must it have happened that mere presbyters chose and consecrated a bishop from among themselves, and how many consecrations of bishops may there have been which were invalid, as having been performed by bishops who... had been thrust in and afterwards ejected as unauthorized. Especially was this the case at ' 2 Cor. Xi. 5, xii. Li. 1 68 THE CLERGY [bk. I Rome. How easily then may we here find views and facts which gainsay the vahdity of these consecra- tions ! Nevertheless we find some things which, though not of apostolic foundation, prefigure the Catholic Episcopate in apostolic times, viz. The powerful local activity which had been exercised by St. Paul during his long sojourn at Ephesus, by St. John after him in the same place, by St.
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