Witnesses for Christ And Memorials of Church Life: From the Fourth ..., volume 1
Witnesses for Christ And Memorials of Church Life: From the Fourth ..., volume 1
Edward Backhouse, Charles Tylor
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folios, one-half howeyer being a tranBlation into Latin. In the Greek Church he ranks above all other Church writers. The Czar Alexis, father of Peter the Great, was accustomed to rise at four o'clock, and go into the oratory, where, after a quarter of an hour in prayer, the deacon of the palace read to him books of devotion, most frequently the writings of Chrysostom.—Schuyler's Life of Peter the Great, vol. i. p. 21. Digitized by VjOOQ IC ON THE PRIESTHOOD. 239 the bells, the pomegranates, th...e stones worn on the a.d. 407. breast and shoulders, the mitre, the crown, the robe reaching down to the feet, the golden fringe, the holy of holies, the great stillness of all in the Temple; • . . yet that which was made glorious had no glory at all by reason of the glory that excelleth. . • . Although their abode and home is on earth, the priests are entrusted with the management of things in heaven, and receive an authority such as God never granted either to angels or archangels : to whom it was never said, * Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.' For though even tem- poral rulers have authority to bind, thejr power reaches only to the body ; whereas this bond pene- trates the very soul, and passes up into the heavens, where God ratifies the act of his priests.
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