¹⁷⁶ "Before all" is omitted in one V. ms.

¹⁷⁷ One V. ms. reads "sender forth" instead of "Lord."

¹⁷⁸ Ps. lxxiv. 16.

¹⁷⁹ One V. ms. reads "with" instead of "in."

¹⁸⁰ Ps. xliv. 20.

¹⁸¹ Ex. xxxiv. and xx.

¹⁸² Ps. xvii. 8.

¹⁸³ One V. ms. reads, "with whom," and "with the Holy Spirit."

¹⁸⁴ [They are "at rest." Yet this prayer, and wherefore? See St. Augustine, Confessions (ed. Migne), p. 765, Nebridius.]

¹⁸⁵ Matt. xxii. 32; Wisd. iii. 1.

¹⁸⁶ "With whom," one V. ms.

¹⁸⁷ Ps. xxviii. 9.

¹⁸⁸ 2 Tim. iv. 7.

¹⁸⁹ The Syriac and a Greek marginal reading give "the thirtieth."

¹⁹⁰ Deut. xxxiv. 8. [Comp. Aug., Confess. (ed. Migne), p. 778.]

¹⁹¹ [The "month's mind" was anciently of this sort, with no reference to purgatorial penalties. "Credo jam feceris quod rogo."-Aug.]

¹⁹² The Syriac and the Oxford ms. read "God" instead of "Lord."

¹⁹³ Ps. xi. 7.

¹⁹⁴ Isa. lxii. 11.

¹⁹⁵ Prov. xxxi. 4, LXX.

¹⁹⁶ The Syriac, the Coptic, and the Oxford ms. add, "the bishops." The Coptic omits "the deacons."

¹⁹⁷ The Coptic adds, "Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit."

¹⁹⁸ Prov. xxiii.; Ecclus. xxxi. 25-31; Eph. v. 18; Prov. xxvi. 9.

¹⁹⁹ Prov. xxiii. 29, 30.

²⁰⁰ [A token of the early origin of what is genuine in these interpolated Constitutions.]

²⁰¹ Matt. x. 23.

²⁰² Matt. xxvi. 41.

²⁰³ Luke x. 16; Matt. x. 40; John xiii. 20.

²⁰⁴ Ps. civ. 9.

²⁰⁵ Job xxxviii. 10, 11.

²⁰⁶ Num. xvi.; 2 Chron. xxvi.

²⁰⁷ Num. xii. 7, 8; Ex. xxxiii. 11, 17.

²⁰⁸ 1 Sam. xiii.

²⁰⁹ 2 Chron. xxvi.

²¹⁰ 1 Kings xiii. 33.

²¹¹ 1 Cor. xiv. 33. [See p. 500, note 6, infra.]

²¹² Acts ix. 5. [See Acts xxvi. 14, where the clause is genuine. In ix. 5 it is a later interpolation of the Vulgate and Erasmus.-R.]

²¹³ The Coptic adds, "the Son of God, and true God."

²¹⁴ Ex. xxviii. and xxix.

²¹⁵ The Coptic adds "God."

²¹⁶ Acts vi. and vii.

²¹⁷ One V. ms. has the following note: "That he who baptized the Ethiopian eunuch was not the Apostle Philip, but one of those who were chosen along with St. Stephen to be deacons, and who also had four daughters, as says Luke in the Acts." [See pp. 452, 492, supra.]

²¹⁸ Acts viii. and ix.

¹ [The brief notes on these canons have been mainly derived from the text and notes appended to Hefele's History of Christiaan Councils, vol. i. pp. 450-492, Edinburgh translations.-R.]

² [Comp. Apostolic Constitutions, iii. 20, viii. 4, 27, on these two canons.-R.]

³ [This canon, and the two following ones, which explain it, point to some early heretical customs. The Apostolic Constitutions furnish no exact parallel. Canon 4 was joined with 3 in the Greek text. Dionysius divided them: hence a variation in number exists from this point.-R.]

⁴ [Dionysius omits aut diaconus.-R.]

⁵ Comp. Apostolic Constitutions, ii. 6.-R.]

⁶ This points to a discussion in the third century.-R.]

⁷ [Canons 9-16 agree with those of the Council of Antioch, A.D., 341; but there is a difference of opinion on the question of priority.

⁸ Dionysius Exiguus translates "communicans," in which case the Greek reading must be dekto/j, or, "who can be received."

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