Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 13 — Gregory to Januarius, Bishop of Sardinia.
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Volume 13
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 13
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It has come to our ears that some of your clerics, inflated with a spirit of elation (which is a serious thing to be said), neglect obedience to the commands of your Fraternity, and occupying themselves rather in the services and labours of others, desert the business of their own Church in which they are needed. For this reason we greatly wonder why you do not keep up the rule of discipline, and restrain them, when wandering dissolutely at large, with a rein of strict control to the requirements of the office they have undertaken. It is said also that some of these contumacious clerks…
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