10/26 Look now; there are but seven deacons to this great city, and all its priests; and they and the archdeacon are the masters of it and us. They and that Peter manage Cyril's work for him, and when Cyril makes the archdeacon a bishop, he will make Peter archdeacon....They have their reward, they have their reward; and so has Cyril, for that matter.' 'How ?' 'Why, don't say I said it. But what do I care? But they do say that there are two ways of promotion in Alexandria: one by deserving it, the other by paying for it. That's all.' 'Impossible!' 'Oh, of course, quite impossible. |