Note 7 — Chapter XLI · BLAGOVESTCHENSK.
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I have called this requirement of the Russian Church inconsistent because they interpret St. Paul’s words, that a deacon should be the husband of one wife, so literally as not to ordain a bachelor as parish clergyman; and yet, though St. Paul gives the same injunction concerning a bishop, they will not consecrate a priest to the episcopate so long as he is married.