IV. On the Ecclesiastical Supremacy of Christian Rulers 264 V. The Royal Supremacy in the Church of England 272 . WHAT is the etymology and meaning of CHAP. I. A. It is derived from the Greek word Kupiakỳ, 1 Pet. ii. 5. a feminine adjective, from Kúpios, the Lord; and Heb. iii. 6. it means Kuplakỳ oikia, or the Lord's House'. 1 CASAUBON, Exercit. Baron. xiii. § xvii. Ecclesias HOOKER, Eccl. Pol. V. XIII. 1. VALES. ad Euseb. Laud. Cor. The word Kupiakos occurs twice in the N. Test. xi. 20, and Rev. i. 10. Kupiakh in the Eastern Church, is the Lord's DAY, as Dominica and Dimanche in the Wes- tern. The German Domkirche, for the Basilica or Cathe- dral, seems to be a combination of both the Latin and Greek words for CHURCH, i. e. Dominicum (whence il B PART I. . Is there not another word, the same both in Greek and Latin, by which CHURCH is expressed? A. Yes, ECCLESIA. Q. Whence is this word derived? A. From the Greek ek, forth, and kaλéw, to call. Q. How is this word modified in living European languages? A. In Italian it has become Chiesa; in French, Eglise; and in Spanish, Iglésia. Q. What did the word Ecclesia originally mean? A. A Public Assembly; and it was specially applied to designate the Popular Assembly' at Athens, to which all free citizens were convoked, and which was summoned by Presidents (puráveis), each of whom (as ériσrárns) held in rotation the keys of the Civic Treasury and Archives and the State Seal. 1 Bp. PEARSON on the Creed, Art. ix. 2 JULIUS POLLUX, viii. 6. HERMANN'S Manual of Polit. Antiq. of Greece, § 127. Q. What do you infer from the two words Κυριακὴ and Ἐκκλησία, with respect to the character of the Church? A. That it is the Lord's House, or Common Assembly of His People, presided over by Persons entrusted with certain powers, and to which men are convoked, as the Athenians were to their Ecclesia'. 1 FIELD on the Church, i. 5. Bp. PEARSON on the Creed, Art. ix. note. 'Ekкλŋola is the same with the Kλŋrol, or the company called and gathered together. Q. But is not the Christian Church something more than an Assembly? A. Yes, the Church is indeed an Assembly, it being convoked; but it is a permanent Society' in that having been convoked it will never be CHAP. I. dissolved. 1 HOOKER, III. I. 14. The Church is always a Visible Society of men. . And this Assembly or Society is presented to us in Holy Scripture under what form? -47. xx. 7. a. As consisting of believing and baptized persons, continuing "stedfastly in the Apostles' doc- Acts ii. 41 trine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread and in the prayers ;" and who were thus reputed to be Members of the same Church, and to which were added (oi owłóμevoi) such as were being saved1. 1 Bp. PEARSON, Lectiones in Acta Apostolorum, pp. 34, 35, ed. 1688 (in Act. i. 13. ii. 48). Hæc nobis forma quasi atque imago primæ Ecclesiæ ab Apostolis congregatæ, formatæ, gubernatæ. Fide semel Apostolico sermoni habitâ per Baptismum in Ecclesiam admittebantur; in Ecclesiam admissi Coetus Publicos frequentabant; in cœtu publico Doctrinæ Apostolorum seduld attendebant; et Eucharistiæ participes fiebant (fractione panis, i. e. Eucharistiâ, p. 34); Publicis denique et Communibus Orationibus in eodem Cœtu factis Deum colebant. Atque ita Ecclesiis omnibus usque ad consummationem sæculi Exemplum præbebant. Q. What are the designations by which the Church is described in the Apostles' Creed, and in the Nicene or Constantinopolitan Creed1? A. It is called ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC, and APOSTOLIC (μία, ἁγία, καθολικὴ, ̓Αποστολική). 1 The originals of these Creeds, and of the Athanasian, may be seen in Bp. BEVERIDGE on the XXXIX Articles, Art. viii. Voss. de Symbolis, 1662. WATERLAND, ii. 309 -331. iv. 130-314. Q. How is the Church ONE, or United? Acts ii. 47. p. 28. Rom. xii. 5. 1 Cor. xi. 3. a. Inasmuch as all its members have one God Eph. iv. 6. and Father; and are united as sheep of one fold, John x. 16. under one Shepherd; and as Members, under 1 Cor. xii. Christ their Head, of one Body, into which they 12. 20. are all baptized in one Spirit; and all are par- Eph. iv. takers of one Bread and of one Cup in the Holy 2-5. Eucharist; have all one Faith' and one Hope of 1 Cor. x. 17. their calling; are all of one heart and one soul, Jude 3. |