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The Decretals
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[2703] Job xxix. 13-17, according to the Vulgate version.
[2704] Or, Gallus. But Saturninus and Gallus were consuls in the year 198, while Victor was yet alive.
The Second Epistle: To the Bishops of the Province of Egypt.
[2705] Or, diligence. [See note 2, p. 612.]
[2707] By these apocrisarii are meant the deputies of the bishops, and their locum tenentes, as it were, who manage the affairs of the Church, hear the cases of individuals, and refer them to the bishops. They are therefore called apocrisarii, i.e., responders, from ἀποκρίνομαι, to respond. Mention is made of them in Justinian Novell., Quomodo oporteat Episcopos, chap. xii. Albericus understands by them the legates of the Pope. [Note 3.]
[2719] The ms. reads, “and those wearing the priestly dignity.”
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