Even so must their wives be serious, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Some have thought that this is said of women generally, but it is not so, for why should he introduce anything about women to interfere with his subject? He is speaking of those who hold the rank of deaconesses.
