Why a homomorphism of schemes induces a homomorphism of automorphism groups?

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In Milne's Lectures of Etale Cohomology, page 27,the first line, he says(all schemes are supposed to be integral.):

Suppose $X_i$ and $X_j$ are finite etale over scheme X, then a homomorphism $\phi\in \hom_X(X_i,X_j)$ induces a homomorphism:$\phi':\operatorname{Aut}_{X}(X_i)\to \operatorname{Aut}_{X}(X_j) $.

How? I think we may need another morphism:$\theta:X_j\to X_i$, but can we build it from $\phi$?