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Pelagius — on 1Cor 1:17 (COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 1)

Patristic A.D. 420

Pelagius · c. A.D. 354–420

“Paul did not usurp the functions of the lower offices when he was able to exercise the higher ones. It would be as if nowadays a bishop or even a priest were to do the work of a deacon.”

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