And let these also first be tested; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
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Gregory The Dialogist
AD 604
Orders, then, should be risen to in an orderly way; for he courts a fall who seeks to rise to the topmost heights of a place by steep ascents, disregarding the steps that lead to it.