And let these also first be tested; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Would it not be absurd that when a new servant is not entrusted with anything in a house till he has by long trial given proofs of his character, yet that one should enter into the church of God from a state of heathenism and be at once placed in a station of preeminence? Homilies on Timothy
