“‘Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and do not reject your mother’s law.’…This statement can be accepted as coming from the person of God the Father but in the name of mother church, who was then called the synagogue, I understand. Observe also that it commands us to listen to the father’s instruction that we not reject the mother’s law for any reason.
(Bede the Venerable)

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