“Be obedient to your bishop and welcome him as the parent of your soul.… In your case the bishop combines in himself many titles to your respect. He is at once a monk, a prelate and an uncle who has before now instructed you in all holy things. This also I say that the bishops should know themselves to be priests, not…”
Jerome, 5th c. — LETTER 52.7
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1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
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— Proverbs 10:1 —
2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
3The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.