"Inquiry shall likewise be made about the professions and trades of those who are brought to be admitted to the faith. ... A gladiator or a trainer of gladiators, or a huntsman, or anyone connected with these shows ... must desist or be rejected. ... A soldier of the civil authority must be taught not to kill men and to refuse to do so if he is commanded, and to refuse to take an oath; if he is unwilling to comply, he must be rejected. A military commander or civic magistrate that wears the purple must resign or be rejected. If a catechumen or a believer seeks to become a soldier, they must be rejected, for they have despised God."
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Hippolytus of Rome, Apostolic Tradition, in Readings in World Christian History (2013), p. 17
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