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  1. Oct 2025
    1. It is not permitted for you to be with us, but because you do not have good and upright teachers, obey us and do whatever we say,

      acknowledges God's heirarchy of man (accepts?) but still places responsibility on the man

    2. Whence all the wisdom which you sought so hard to find in Scripture and in instruction has been swallowed up in the pit of your own will, since you did those things you learned by touching and tasting merely to fulfill your own desires in the fatness of your flesh, just like a child who does not know what he is doing because he is a child

      reaching the level of attainable piousness relies more on internal mechanisms-- reading the Bible alone does not make you holy

    1. Thus when individuals seek after empty honor rather than humility, because they believe that one is preferable to the other, it is necessary that they be assigned to their proper place.

      accepting only/mostly women of higher nobility to "assign to their proper place"?