The Czartoryscy, of all men, were bound by their principles and professions to set their fellow citizens an example of fraternal concord.
In support of their views they appealed to scripture and to the Western Fathers, who had used the term "adoption" as synonymous with "assumption" in the orthodox sense; and especially to Christ's fraternal relation to Christians - the brother of God's adopted sons.
Its communities were bound together by a sense of close fraternal relation.