Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. I — Section 35
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume I
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For if I, in this brief space of time, have enjoyed such fellowship with your bishop — I mean not of a mere human, but of a spiritual nature — how much more do I reckon you happy, who so depend ^ on him as the Church does on the Lord Jesus, and the Lord does on God and His Father, that so all things may agree in unity ! Let no man de- ceive himself: if any one be not within the altar, he is deprived of the bread of God. For if the prayer of one or two possesses ■* such power that Christ stands in the midst of them, how much more will the prayer of the bishop and of the whole Church, …
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