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The Treatises of Cyprian

Cyprian · early-church-fathers

That we must rise when a bishop or a presbyter comes.

  1. That we must rise when a bishop or a presbyter comes.

In Leviticus: “Thou shalt rise up before the face of the elder, and shall honour the person of the presbyter.”

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