Apocrypha · Chapter 43 of 65
Letter to the Corinthians
And this was not a new idea, for indeed bishops and deacons had been written about long ago.
2For thus says the scripture somewhere: I will establish their bishops in righteousness and their deacons in faith.
3Moses was faithful in all the house of God as a servant, for a testimony of the things that would be said.
4And the other prophets also followed him, bearing witness together with him to the laws that he instituted.
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About 1 Clement
A letter from the church of Rome to the church of Corinth around the year 96, trying to reverse the deposition of presbyters. The oldest Christian document outside the New Testament.