93. The celibacy of the clergy during the first five or six
centuries is a subject of discipline, and indeed of
controversy, which has been very diligently examined. See in
particular Thomassin Discipline de l'Eglise, tom. i. l. ii.
c. lx. lxi. p. 886-902; and Bingham's Antiquities,1. iv. c.
5. By each of these learned but partial critics one half of
the truth is produced, and the other is concealed.