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← On the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy↑ Caput V — I. Concerning sacerdotal Consecrations.

Section 3

On the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy · Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

And the imposition of the Hierarchical hand signifies at once the consecrating protection, by which, as holy children, they are paternally tended, which bequeaths to them a sacerdotal condition and power, and drives away their adverse powers, and teaches, at the same time also, to perform the sacerdotal operations, as those who, having been consecrated, are acting under God, and have Him as Leader of their own operations in every respect.

PdEH 5.3.1