Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of dishonest gain;
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Polycarp of Smyrna
AD 155
Likewise the deacons should be blameless before the Lord’s righteousness, as servants of God and Christ and not of men; not slanderers, or doubletongued, not lovers of money, temperate in all matters, compassionate, careful, living according to the truth of the Lord, who became a “servant of all”; to whom, if we are pleasing in the present age, we shall also obtain the age to come, inasmuch as he promised to raise us from the dead.
