Saint Augustine



On the Creed:
A Sermon
to the
Catechumens

Chapter 14




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Saint Augustine (354-430)

On the Creed:
A Sermon to the Catechumens

Translated by C. L. Cornish

Chapter 14


It follows after commendation of the Trinity, “The Holy Church.” God is pointed out, and His temple. “For the temple of God is holy,” says the Apostle, “which (temple) are ye.” This same is the holy Church, the one Church, the true Church, the catholic Church, fighting against all heresies: fight, it can: be fought down, it cannot. As for heresies, they went all out of it, like as unprofitable branches pruned from the vine: but itself abideth in its root, in its Vine, in its charity. “The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”





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