For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his office let another take.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
this is said of the field and the dwelling: And his bishopric let another take; that is, his office, his priesthood. So that this, he says, is not my counsel, but His who has foretold these things. For, that he may not seem to be undertaking a great thing, and just such as Christ had done, he adduces the Prophet as a witness.
