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Apostolic Tradition

St Hippolytus of Rome, tr. Horner, 1904; from the Ethiopic

Statute 42: Concerning that It is Seemly for the Deacons to Wait Upon the Bishop

And every one of the deacons with the subdeacons shall turn to the bishop and tell him concerning the sick, that he may visit them, for if the Chief Priest visits the sick diligently they shall be consoled; for he has remembered them.

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