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perfect emblem of the Church, unless the Rod of 

 Aaron be there too: and, without jurisdiction and 

 discipline, we shall quickly find the Word and 

 Sacraments will not have so powerful an influence 

 upon a loose and a debauched world. Epiphanius* 

 observes, that Moses was sent into Egypt, pocP^co 

 fj^ofii. Some while after, he instituted the Pass- 

 over, and received the Law, and consecrated 

 Aaron and his sons to the priesthood ; but he 

 carried the Rod of God with him in his hand. 

 No bringing up the Israel of God out of Egypt 

 without it. And it is that Rod, therefore, which 

 St. Paul here puts into Titus's hand, when he bids 

 him correct what is amiss in the text, and rebuke 

 evil doers f sharply and severely, v. 1 1 ; and stop 

 the mouths of such as teach what they ought not, 

 V. 13. Nay, and rebuke them :t^ with all authority, 

 not suffering his monitions to be slighted by any: 

 Let no man contemn thee, Ch. IL v. 15. 



Nay, if corrigas will not serve the turn, be a 

 word too low; St. Jerome, upon the place, and, 

 after him. Cardinal Cajetan, have added a cubit 

 to its stature, and advanced it into super-corrigas, 

 which yet perhaps arrives not the full altitude of 

 the Greek. For Iwi^io^^^v is a decompound, and, 

 if o^08v be to make straight, or right, Sio^^hv is 

 thoroughly to do it, and iTn^^o^^Zy to do it, not only 

 exactly, but over and over again. St. Chrysostom 

 and St. Jerome § both take notice of this emphasis, 



* Contra Haeres. lib. i. c. J . Contra Aerian, 



t AwoTo/xw?. \ MsTct CT^crtji Ecriray^f. § In locum. 



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