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37Let us then serve in our army, brethren, with all earnestness, following his faultless commands. 2Let us consider those who serve our generals, with what good order, habitual readiness, and submissiveness they perform their commands. 3Not all are prefects, nor tribunes, nor centurions, nor in charge of fifty men, or the like, but each carries out in his own rank the commands of the emperor and of the generals. 4The great cannot exist without the small, nor the small without the great; there is a certain mixture among all, and herein lies the advantage. 5Let us take our body; the head is nothing without the feet, likewise the feet are nothing with out the head; the smallest members of our body are necessary and valuable to the whole body, but all work together and are united in a common subjection to preserve the whole body.
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