ACC ~ 1 Timothy 5 v22a

BAPTISM AND PENANCE, NOT ORDINATION. TERTULLIAN: Baptism is not rashly to be administered. … Similarly, this precept is rather to be looked at carefully. … “Lay not hands easily on any; share not other men’s sins.” ON BAPTISM 18.

ENTRUSTING A MADMAN WITH A SWORD. CHRYSOSTOM: What does Paul say? If one who I have ordained has sinned, do I share his blame and punishment? Yes, says he. One who authorizes evil is blameworthy. It is just as in the case of any one entrusting into the hands of a raging and insane person a sharply pointed sword, with which the madman commits murder, that one who gave the sword incurs the blame. So anyone that gives the authority that arises from this office to a man living in evil, draws down on his own head all the fire of that man’s sins and audacity. HOMILIES ON S. IGNATIUS AND S. BABYLAS, EULOGION FOR IGNATIUS 2.

GOOD ORDER IN THE HOUSEHOLD. LEO THE GREAT: For the peace and order of the Lord’s whole household will be shaken, if what is required in the body be not found in the head. What is it to lay on hands hastily but to confer the priestly dignity on unproved men before the proper age, before there has been time to test them? LETTERS 12.2.

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