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Jerome · Letters · NPNF2 VI, Letters, Letter LII, 7
Advice to Nepotian, newly ordained. The letter is a manual for the clergy and was read as one for a thousand years.
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These words were matched, word for word, against this project’s own copy of the volume cited.
Read in Fremantle, Lewis & Martley, NPNF series 2 vol. 6 (1893) · W. H. Fremantle, M.A., with G. Lewis and W. G. Martley
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