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.”40    1 Cor. iii. 17 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.”41    Matt. xvi. 18. [See R.V.]

CAPUT VI.

14. De sancta Ecclesia. Sequitur post Trinitatis commendationem, sanctam Ecclesiam. Demonstratus est Deus et templum ipsius. Templum enim Dei sanctum est, ait Apostolus, quod estis vos (Id. III, 17). Ipsa est Ecclesia sancta, Ecclesia una, Ecclesia vera, Ecclesia catholica, contra omnes haereses pugnans: pugnare potest, expugnari tamen non potest. Haereses omnes de illa exierunt, tanquam sarmenta inutilia de vite praecisa: ipsa autem manet in radice sua, in vite sua, in charitate sua. Portae inferorum non vincent eam (Matth. XVI, 18).