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Apostolic Constitutions, on Titus 1:6
Apostolic Constitutions · c. A.D. 380
Titus 1:6 · Douay-Rheims
“If any be without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly.”
On this verse:
“We have already said, that a bishop, a presbyter, and a deacon, when they are constituted, must be but once married, whether their wives be alive or whether they be dead; and that it is not lawful for them, if they are unmarried when they are ordained, to be married afterwards; or if they be then married, to marry a second time, but to be content with that wife. which they had when they came to ordination.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.