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Constitutions of the Holy Apostles
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Introductory Notice to Constitutions of the Holy Apostles.
[3585] Judith viii..
[3588] [The compiler has forgotten that few of these had husbands, at least at the time when they are reported to have prophesied.—R.]
Sec. II.—Election and Ordination of Bishops: Form of Service on Sundays.
[3590] We have adopted the reading of one V. ms., ἀπεχαρήσατο. It means more than is in the text—that God used the wicked in a way in which they would not be naturally used; lit., “abused,” or “misused.” The other mss. and the Coptic read ἀπεχαρίσατο, “gave His gifts to the wicked for prophecy.” Whiston has tried to make sense by giving a new meaning to ἀπεχαρίσατο, “taking away His grace from the wicked.”
[3592] The Coptic and one V. ms. omit from the commencement of the chapter to “deacons.” The V. ms. has: “Peter, the chief of the apostles, proclaimed the Gospel to Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, Bithynia, and finally in Rome, where he was crucified by the prefect in the reign of Nero, and where also he is buried.”
[3593] From this to the end of ch. xxvi., only small portions of what is now in the received text occur in the Coptic version. The Oxford ms. is also deficient. It has only a portion of the fifth, nothing of ch. vi. to xvi., and only a single sentence in ch. xxii. The portions in Coptic are printed in italics.
[3594] Omitted in one V. ms.
[3596] The Coptic has, “let the bishop pray for him.”
[3599] One V. ms. reads, “with whom.”
[3600] The Coptic inserts, “let the holy Gospels be read.”
[3601] The Coptic reads “Gospel” instead of “Law.”
[3602] One V. ms. has the following note: “Andrew the brother of Peter preaches the Gospel to the Scythians, Sogdiani, and Thracians, who on account of preaching Christ is crowned with the martyrdom of the cross by Ægæa the proconsul, and was buried in Patræ. Afterwards he was removed to Constantinople by the Emperor Constantine.”
[3603] The Oxford ms. has this chapter in an abbreviated form as in the parallel columns.
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