Letter 823: The priesthood is a sacred trust, not a career.
And Judas the Galilean, and the Egyptian who led the Sicarii -- not being sent, but showing themselves forth, and self-appointed, and zealous...
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Latin / Greek Original
Α καὶ Ἰούδαν τὸν Γαλιλαῖον, καὶ τὸν Αἰγύπτιον τὸν τῶν σικαρίων προστάντα [76]), οὐκ ἀποστελλόμενοι, ἀλλὰ φανητιῶντες, καὶ αὐτοχειροτόνητοι, καὶ σπουδαρ χίδαι τυγχάνοντες, οἴκοθεν πὐτομόλησαν. Ὅτι δὲ περὶ αὐτῶν τούτων ἐῤῥέθη, τὸ ἑπόμενον δηλοῖ· «Ὁ κλέπτης γὰρ, φησὶν, οὐκ ἔρχεται, εἰ μὴ ἕνα θύσῃ. καὶ κλέψῃ, καὶ ἀπολέσῃ. » Πάντες γὰρ ὅσοι αὐτοῖς ἐπείσθησαν, κατεσφάγησαν, καὶ ἀπώλοντο, παρα- βραβεῦσαι τὴν ἀλήθειαν εγχειρήσαντες, καὶ λόγου θᾶττον, εἰς τὸ παντελὲς ἀποσβεσθέντες.
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