The same is again confirmed in express words in the same text, “Ye shall be to me a sacerdotal kingdom, and an holy nation.” The vulgar Latin hath it, regnum sacerdotale , to which agreeth the translation of that place (1 Pet. 2:9), Sacerdotium regale , “a regal priesthood”; as also the institution itself, by which no man might enter into the “sanctum sanctorum,” that is to say, no man might inquire God’s will immediately of God himself, but only the high priest. The English translation before mentioned, following that of Geneva, has “a kingdom of priests”; which is either meant of the succession of one high priest after another, or else it accordeth not with St. Peter, nor with the exercise of the high priesthood; for there was never any but the high priest only, that was to inform the people of God’s will; nor any convocation of priests ever allowed to enter into the sanctum sanctorum.