24. This question I should
briefly solve, if I should say, because I should also justly say,
that we must believe the Apostle. For he himself knew why in the
Churches of the Gentiles it was not meet that a venal Gospel were
carried about; not finding fault with his fellow-apostles, but
distinguishing his own ministry; because they, without doubt by
admonition of the Holy Ghost, had so distributed among them the
provinces of evangelizing, that Paul and Barnabas should go
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the Gentiles, and they unto the Circumcision.25562556 But that he gave this precept to
them who had not the like power, those many things already said do
make manifest. But these brethren of ours rashly arrogate unto
themselves, so far as I can judge, that they have this kind of
power. For if they be evangelists, I confess, they have it: if
ministers of the altar, dispensers of sacraments, of course it is
no arrogating to themselves, but a plain vindicating of a
right.