{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/201/2010610.htm","path":"chr/ecf/201/2010610.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/201/2010610.htm","text":"p. 546 Chapter XXIV.\u2014That he described himself to be a Bishop, in Charge of Affairs External to the Church.\nHence it was not without reason that once, on the occasion of his entertaining a company of bishops, he let fall the expression, \u201cthat he himself too was a bishop,\u201d addressing them in my hearing in the following words: \u201cYou are bishops whose jurisdiction is within the Church: I also am a bishop, ordained by God to overlook whatever is external to the Church.\u201d 3324 And truly his measures corresponded with his words: for he watched over his subjects with an episcopal care, and exhorted them as far as in him lay to follow a godly life.\nThis saying of Constantine has occasioned a deal of exegesis and conjecture. Compare monograph of Walch mentioned under Literature in the Prolegomena for discussion and references to other older literature.","title":"Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol I: The Life ...","type":"page"}