The Catholic Conception of the Church a Study of the Traditional Idea of the N
The Catholic Conception of the Church a Study of the Traditional Idea of the N
W J William John Sparrow Simpson
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John xiii. 23. » Loisy, La Quatridme Evangile, p. 726. * St. John xxi. 19, 54 THE CATHOLIC CONCEPTION OF THE CHURCH able light is thrown upon the relation between the King- dom and the Church. The passages are only two ; but their significance is profound. The one is where our Lord before Pilate affirms the moral and religious nature of His Kingdom, and expressly calls it His. " My Kingdom is not of this world. " * The distinction some- times attempted to be drawn between the character of Chris...t's reign and the character of ^Christ's Kingdom, as if He was dwelling rather upon the first than upon the second, seems not only over subtle but unsuited as an answer to the suspicions of Pontius Pilate : unless indeed the one implies the other, and then the value of the distinction disappears. In any case, there is the other great Johannine passage about the Kingdom in the answer to Nicodemus : " Ex- cept a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. " 2 Here we find the con- ditions of entrance into the Kingdom associated with an external element.
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