“Nothing so becomes a Church as silence and good order.”
Nothing so becomes a Church as silence and good order.
John Chrysostom · Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles · NPNF1 XI, Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XXX (on Acts XIII. 42)
A preacher asking a congregation that applauded his sermons to stop.
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Read in Walker, Sheppard & Browne, NPNF series 1 vol. 11 (1889) · J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, revised by George B. Stevens
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