ACC ~ 1 Timothy 3 v10a

APPROPRIATE CAUTION. CHRYSOSTOM: Would it not be absurd that when a new servant is not entrusted with anything in a house till he has by long trial given proofs of his character, yet that one should enter into the church of God from a state of heathenism and be at once placed in a station of preeminence? HOMILIES ON 1 TIMOTHY 11.

ONE STEP AT A TIME. GREGORY THE GREAT: Orders, then, should be risen to in an orderly way; for he courts a fall who seeks to rise to the topmost heights of a place by steep ascents, disregarding the steps that lead to it. LETTERS 106.

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