NOTE

[1] 2 Cor. 13, 13.

[2] Matth. 14, 30.

[3] Ibid. 14, 31.

[4] S. AUGUSTINI Sermo 75, 3: PL 38, 475.

[5] Matth. 28, 20.

[6] Lumen Gentium, 9.

[7] Ibid.

[8] Matth. 5, 13 ss.

[9]1 Petr. 3, 15.

[10] Io. 15, 13.

[11] Luc. 22, 32.

[12] 2 Tim. 4, 2.

[13] Io. 17, 21.

[14] Ibid.

[15] Lumen Gentium, 23.

[16] Cfr. S. IGNATII ANTIOCHENI Epistola ad Romanos, Funk, I, 252.

[17] Cfr. 1 Petr. 2, 25.

[18] Lumen Gentium, 46.

[19] Cfr. Matth. 13, 33.

[20] Apostolicam Actuositatem, 11.

[21] Lumen Gentium, 11.

[22] Cfr. Mal. 4, 2.

[23] S.AMBROSII Exp. Ev. sec. Lucam, IV, 70: CSEL 32, 4, p. 175.