For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Paul tempers his criticism by saying that he only partly believes what he has been told [of their factions] because he wants to encourage them to return to the right state of affairs.