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they intend tofocus the contemporary viewer’s attention on a different range of problems, all of which referred to the internal administration of the church, or to the undisputed position of the papacy at the apex of the ecclesiastical hierarchy.2.
because he had no choice in the matter, forced as he was by the superior authority of the state, and also because he wished to show the apostles that they should not fight over such things.

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