An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

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SACERDOTAL CELIBACY IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
BY HENRY C. LEA.
SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED.
Οὐ γαρ θεου ἐστι κινειν ἐπι τα παρα φυσιν. Athenagoræ pro Christianis Legatio .
BOSTON HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY New York 11 East Seventeenth Street The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1884
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1884, by HENRY C. LEA, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress. All rights reserved.