66. But if so much consideration is needed in
other churches for the ordination of a bishop, how much care is
required in the Church of Vercellæ, where two things seem to be
equally required of the bishop, monastic rule and church
discipline? For Eusebius of holy memory was the first in Western
lands to bring together these differing matters, both while living in
the city observing the rules of the monks, and ruling the Church with
fasting and temperance. For the grace of the priesthood is much
increased if the bishop constrain young men to the practice of
abstinence, and to the rule of purity; and forbid them though living in
the city, the manners and mode of life of the city.