{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081412.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081412.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081412.htm","text":"p. 619 The Epistle of Pope Urban First. 2762\nOf the church\u2019s receiving only the property of the faithful, and not the price of the same, as in the times of the apostles; and as to why elevated seats should be prepared in the churches for the bishops; and as to the fact that no one should have intercourse with those whom the bishops excommunicate, and that no one should receive those whom they have cast out in any manner whatever. 2763\nUrban, bishop, to all Christians, in sanctification of the spirit, in obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ our Lord, greeting.\nIt becomes all Christians, most dearly beloved, to imitate Him whose name they have received. \u201cWhat doth it profit, my brethren,\u201d says the Apostle James, \u201cthough a man say he hath faith, and have not works?\u201d 2764 \u201cMy brethren, be not many masters, knowing that ye receive (sumitis) the greater condemnation; for in many things we offend all.\u201d 2765 \u201cLet him who is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among you, show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.\u201d 2766\nUrban was the successor of Callistus. The letter ascribed to him is one of the pseudo-Isidorian forgeries.\n619:2763\nMansi, Concil. Collect., i. p. 748.\n619:2764 619:2765 619:2766","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: The Decretals.: Preface.","type":"page"}