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The bishop’s speech is interpreted as conventional religious salvation: leave the foul body and live in a heavenly mansion.
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Bishop
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The church scaled because it mirrored Roman household hierarchy and patron-client relations, letting bishops control dogma and aristocrats convert networks.
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"I met the bishop on the road and much said that he was a high religious authority."
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"Those breasts are flat and fallen now. Those veins must soon be dry. Live in a heavenly mansion not in some foul stye."
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"Okay. So you're fallen, right? So you've seen a lot in life. You've lived a terrible life. But don't worry. God is forgiving. If..."
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"of three major wars between the Romans and the Jews okay it would be two more major wars and both both wars a lot..."
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"...modeled on the paterfamilias, okay? So at the top was the bishop, okay? And the bishop was in control of something called dogma, which..."
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"...of Jesus. But in this church, which is hierarchical, only the bishop or the person in charge had the right interpretation and you had..."
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