. lxx.-"Una ecclesia a
Christo Domino super Petrum origine unitatis et ratione fundata."

[570:1] The word _catholic_ first occurs in the Epistle of the Church of
Smyrna giving an account of the martyrdom of Polycarp, but that letter
was probably not written until at least twenty years after the event
which it records. See Period II. sec. i. chap. iv. p. 337. It is
remarkable that the word is not found in Irenaeus, or used by his Latin
interpreter. The pastor of Lyons, however, recognizes the distinction
indicated by the word catholic, for he speaks of the _ecclesiastici_ or
churchmen, and of those "_qui sunt undique_." Stieren's "Irenaeus," i.
430, 502, note. The word catholic was obviously quite current in the
time of Tertullian.

[570:2] Particularly Matt. xvi. 18. Clemens Alexandrinus says that our
Lord baptized Peter only, and that Peter then baptized other apostles.
See Kaye's "Clement," p. 442; and Bunsen's "Analecta Antenic." i. p.
317. See also Origen, "Opera," ii. 245; and Firmilian's "Epistle."

[571:1] Even Polycrates of Ephesus admits that he had been requested by
Victor to convene a synod. Euseb. v. 24. About sixty years afterwards
Cyprian writes to Stephen of Rome requesting him to send letters into
Gaul that Marcianus the bishop, who had sided with Novatian, "being
excommunicated, another may be substituted in his room."--_Cyprian,
Epist_. lxvii. pp. 248, 249.

[572:1] Thus he says--"For neither did Peter, _whom the Lord chose
first, and on whom He built His Church_, when Paul afterwards disputed
with him about circumcision, claim or assume anything insolently and
arrogantly to himself, so as _to say that he held the primacy_."--Epist.
lxxi. p. 273.

[573:1] Gen. xi. 4.

[573:2] Book I. vision iii. Sec. 3, &c.

[574:1] Rev. xiv. 6-8.

[575:1] 1 Tim. v. 17.

[576:1] See Bunsen's "Hippolytus," ii. 305, and iii. 35, 36.

[576:2] Bunsen's "Hippolytus," iii. 36.

[576:3] "Apost. Constit." ii. 57.

[576:4] [Greek: kai oute ho panu dunatos en logo ton en tais ekklesiais
proestoton, hetera touton erei (oudeis gar huper ton didaskalon) oute ho
asthenes en to logo elattosei ten paradosin].--_Contra Haereses_, i. c.
10. Sec. 2.

[576:5] "Optatus adv. Donat." vii. 6.

[576:6] 1 Cor. xiv. 5, 24, 26, 31.

[577:1] Euseb. vi. 19. It is to be observed that these laymen, having
the sanction of the ecclesiastical authorities, were thus virtually
licensed to preach.

[577:2] "Apost. Constit." vii. 46.