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Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents
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[3058] The day of Pentecost seems to be put for that of the Ascension.
[3059] Syr. “Baith Zaithe.” Comp. Luke xxiv. 50 sqq.
[3060] Comp. Acts i. 12 sqq.
[3061] [It is evident that the apostles had no such ideas until after the vision of St. Peter,Acts x. 9-35.]
[3062] [It is evident that the apostles had no such ideas until after the vision of St. Peter,Acts x. 9-35.]
[3063] The reading of B. and C.: A. reads “answered them.”
[3064] B. reads “suddenly.” [The translator interpolates upon him.]
[3065] On praying toward the east, comp. Apost. Constitutions, ii. 57, vii. 44; and Tertullian, Apol., 16.
A. C., ii. 57, contains an interesting account of the conduct of public worship. It may be consulted in connection with Ordinances 2, 8, and 10, also.—Tr.
[3067] B. and C. read “at the last.” Ebediesu has “from heaven.”
[3068] i.e., the Eucharist.—Tr.
[3069] C. reads “His holy angels.”
[3070] For Ords. 3 and 4, see Ap. Const., v. 13–15.
[3071] B. reads “His manifestation.”
[3072] The reading of C.
[3073] Lit. “ the evening,” but used in particular of the evening of the sixth day of the week, the eve of the seventh: the evening being regarded, as in Gen. i. 5, as the first part of the day. Similarly, παρασκευή, which the Peshito translates by our word, is used in the Gospels for the sixth day, with a prospective reference to the seventh.—Tr.
[3074] See Ap. Const., ii. 25.
[3075] Comp. Eccl. Canons, No. 43. The Gr. ὑποδιάκονοι is here used, though for “deacon” the usual Syriac word is employed, meaning “minister” or “servant.” From Riddle, Christian Antiqq., p. 301, with whom Neander agrees, it would seem that subdeacons were first appointed at the end of the third century or the beginning of the fourth.—Tr. [See vol. v. p. 417.]
[3076] ***, equivalent, not to ἐπίσκοπος, but to σκοπός = watchman, as in Ezek. xxxiii. 7.
[3077] For this B. reads “world.”
[3078] B. has “camp.”
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