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Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents
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[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.”
[3079] See Ap. Const., v. 13.
Christmas, of which no mention is made in these Ordinances, is called “the first of all,” the Epiphany being ranked next to it in the Constitutions.—Tr. [See vol. vii. p. 492.]
[3080] January: the Jewish Tebeth. “The former Canun” is December, i.e., Chisleu.—Tr.
[3081] The era of the Seleucidæ, 311 a.c., appears to be referred to. In this new names were given to certain months, and Canun was one of them. See p. 666, supra.
[3082] Eccl. Can., No. 69.—Tr. See Ap. Const., v. 13–15.
[3083] Properly “the sealer:” for, although the word is not found in the lexicons, its formation shows that it denotes an agent. The meaning seems to be, that the Gospel gives completeness and validity to the Scriptures.—Tr.
[3084] C. reads “forty.”
[3085] See Ap. Const., ii. 57; Teaching of Simon Cephas, ad fin.; Eccl. Can., Nos. 60, 85.—Tr.
[3086] B. and C., as well as Ebediesu, read “and.”
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