TITLE: 'Continuity' of the étale topos
QUESTION [11 upvotes]: In certain concrete situations, I can show that the small étale topos of an inverse limit of schemes is the inverse limit of the associated toposes, for example, if $X$ is a (qcqs) scheme relative over some affine scheme $\operatorname{Spec}(R)$, and $S$ is a filtered colimit of $R$-algebras where $S=\varinjlim S_i$, I can show that there is an equivalence of small étale toposes 
$$\operatorname{\acute{E}t}(X\times_{\operatorname{Spec}(R)}  \operatorname{Spec}(S))\simeq \varprojlim \operatorname{\acute{E}t}(X\times_{\operatorname{Spec}(R)}  \operatorname{Spec}(S_i)).$$
(Note: The inverse limit here is being taken in the category of toposes, not in the category of locally ringed toposes!!)
I heard from a friend that there is a general statement that given an inverse system $\{X_i\}$ of schemes with affine transition maps and limit $X$, then we have an equivalence of étale toposes:
$$\operatorname{\acute{E}t}(X)\simeq \varprojlim\operatorname{\acute{E}t}(X_i).$$
I looked high and low for a reference, and I couldn't find a proof of this statement.  Can someone provide a reference?

REPLY [2 votes]: Milne Etale Cohomology, III Lemma 1.16:
Let $I$ be a small filtered category and $i\rightsquigarrow
X_{i}$ a contravariant functor from $I$ to schemes over $X$. Assume that all
schemes $X_{i}$ are quasi-compact and that the maps $X_{i}\leftarrow X_{j}$
are affine. Let $X_{\infty}=\varprojlim X_{i}$, and, for a sheaf $F$ on
$X_{\mathrm{et}}$, let $F_{i}$ and $F_{\in fty}$ be its inverse images on
$X_{i}$ and $X_{\infty}$ respectively. Then
$$
\injlim H^{p}((X_{i})_{\mathrm{et}},F_{i})\overset{\simeq}{\longrightarrow}H^{p}((X_{\infty})_{\mathrm{et}},F_{\infty}).
$$
The proof is highly technical. It is based on the fact [EGA. IV.17] that the
category of etale schemes of finite-type over $X_{\infty}$ is the direct
limit of the categories of such schemes over the $X_{i}$ and (III, 3) that
etale cohomology commutes with direct limits of sheaves. (See [SGA. 4,
VII, 5.8] or Artin, Grothendieck Topologies, Harvard notes, 1962, III, 3] 
for the details.)