“One cannot now say, the priest is as the people, for the truth is that the people are not so bad as the priest.”
In Conversione S. Pauli, Sermon 1, sect. 3; translation by James Spedding, in The Works of Francis Bacon (1860) vol. 12, p. 134
Ut populus, sic sacerdos is a quotation from Isaiah 24:2.
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Non est jam dicere, "Ut populus, sic sacerdos"; quia nec si populus, ut sacerdos.
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