Augustine of Hippo, on Titus 1:6

“If any be without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly.”

“The first freedom, then, is to be without crimes. And so when the apostle Paul chose either priests or deacons to be ordained, and when anyone is to be ordained to take charge of a church, he does not say, If anyone is without sin. For if he were to say this, every person would be rejected, no one would be ordained. But he says, "if anyone is without crime," such as homicide, adultery and uncleanness of fornication, theft, fraud, sacrilege, and other things of this sort.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.