closely united priesthood all believers might be pre- faithful might dwell together in the bond of one faith their preaching, that all might be one, as he the Son and charity. Whence, before he entered into his crease of the Catholic flock, with the approval of the hatred are rising up on every side against the divinely Then, as he sent the Apostles whom he had chosen 66 ROMAN CATHOLICISM the Church in the firmness of that faith should be lifted sent by the Father, so he willed that to the end of visible foundation, on the strength of which the ever- E and the Father are one. the enduring principle of both kinds of unity and its the Church, we, for the preservation, safety, and in- the world there should be pastors and teachers in his Peter over the rest of the Apostles, he fixed in him laid foundation, to overthrow, if that were possible, And because the gates of hell with a daily increasing but also for those who should believe in him through might be one and undivided, and that by means of a glory, he asked the Father, not for the Apostles only, to himself from the world, as he himself had been Church. Moreover, in order that the episcopate itself lasting temple should be grounded, and the majesty of up to heaven. served in unity of faith and communion, setting bl