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Fragments of Papias
Papias of Hierapolis · c. 70–155 · early-church-fathers
VII.
Papias thus speaks, word for word: To some of them [angels] He gave dominion over the arrangement of the world, and He commissioned them to exercise their dominion well. And he says, immediately after this: but it happened that their arrangement came to nothing.
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