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