A master departed, leaving his teaching to his three
disciples. The eldest faithfully repeated what his master had taught him, changing
nothing. Of the two younger, one added to the teaching, the other took away
from it. At his return the master, without being angry with anyone, said to the
two younger: “Thank your elder brother; without him you would not have
preserved the truth which I handed over to you.” Then he said to the elder: “Thank
your younger brothers; without them you would not have understood the truth I
have entrusted to you.”
– from The Orthodox
Church, by Timothy Ware, chapter 16, pages 332-333
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