{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-528","native_reference":{"book_number":610,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":6,"verse_to":6},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p>Life and Passion of Cyprian by Pontius</p><p>3. The apostle's epistle says[3]</p><p>Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II</p><p>Let him therefore be sober, prudent, decent, firm, stable, not given to wine; no striker, but gentle; not a brawler, not covetous; \"not a novice, test, being puffed up with pride, be fall into condemnation, and the snare of the devil: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abused.\"[13]</p><p>The Ecclesiastical Canons of the Holy Apostles</p><p>It is not right to ordain him bishop presently who is just come in from the Gentiles, and baptized; or from a wicked mode of life: for it is unjust that he who has not yet afforded any trial of himself should be a teacher of others, unless it anywhere happens by divine grace.[51]</p>","source_html_sha256":"58535680fbc6b94640a0a35046bca119728c363c965833cdf358c7e53fb346f2","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":528,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"bdeea001c4a5998d2e2b995e2a99ed76768061aa897b661681a0aec7a6793f5a","translator":null,"work":null}