1 Timothy 3:1 Douay-Rheims

A faithful saying: if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

Tertullian

c. A.D. 150–220 Patristic

Thence, therefore, among us the prescript is more fully and more carefully laid down, that they who are chosen into the sacerdotal order must be men of one marriage; which rule is so rigidly observed, that I remember some removed from their office for digamy.

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A.D. 220 · on 1Tim 3:1 (On Exhortation to Chastity)

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