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Ante-Nicene Fathers — American Roberts / Donaldson / Coxe edition, Volume VII · Constitutions of the Holy Apostles — unspecified — eng
77. If any one be maimed in an eye, or lame of his leg, but is worthy of the episcopal dignity, let him be made a bishop; for it is not a blemish of the body that can defile him, but the pollution of the soul.
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