Then said Paul, I knew not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written,
You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people.
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Cyprian of Carthage
AD 258
-although they had begun to be sacrilegious, and impious, and bloody, the Lord having already been crucified, and had no longer retained anything of the priestly honour and authority-yet Paul, considering the name itself, however empty, and the shadow, as it were, of the priest, said, "I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy, people."
