si natalibus servanda reverentia est, quia et hos non omittendos euangelista monstravit (nam Lucas laudationem Iohannis aggressus praestantissimum computavit, quod de sacerdotali stirpe veniebat, et nobilitatem vitae praedicaturus prius tamen extulit familiae dignitatem): parentes ipsius aut cathedris aut tribunalibus praesederunt.
If respect is to be paid to birth, since the evangelist has shown that even this must not pass unmentioned (for Luke in beginning his eulogy of John counted it a signal distinction that he came of priestly stock, and though his theme was to be the nobility of Johns life, he nevertheless first extolled the rank of his family), his fathers presided over sees or courts:
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