And he said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said,
I am Jesus whom you persecute: it is hard for you to kick against the goads.
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The Apostolic Constitutions
AD 375
That the subordinate persons should tyrannically assume to themselves the functions belonging to their superiors, forming a new scheme of laws to their own mischief, not knowing that "it is hard for them to kick against the pricks; "