Note 7.1 — Chapter VII · THE CHURCH CONSIDERED AS AN ASSOCIATION OF POOR PEOPLE.—INSTITUTION OF THE DIACONATE.—DEACONESSES AND WIDOWS.
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See the accounts collected and translated by Eugene Burnouf. Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism, i. p. 137, and following pages, and particularly pp. 198, 199.
[7.2] See Life of Jesus.
[7.3] Acts ii. 45; iv. 34, 37; v. 1.
[7.4] Acts v. 1, and following verses.
[7.5] Ibid. ii. 45; iv. 35.
[7.6] Ibid. vi. 1, &c.
[7.7] See chapter vi.
[7.8] Acts xxi. 8.
[7.9] Phil. i. 1; I. Timothy iii. 8, and following.
[7.10] Romans xvi. 1, 12; I. Tim. iii. 11; v. 9, and following. Pliny Epist. x. 97. The Epistles to Timothy are most probably not from the pen of Saint Paul; but are in any event of very ancient date.
[7.11] Rom. xvi. 1; I. Cor. ix. 5. Philemon 2.
[7.12] I. Tim. v. 9, and following.
[7.13] Constit. Apost. vi. 17.
[7.14] Sap. ii. 10; Eccl. xxxvii. 17; Matthew xxiii. 14; Mark xii. 40; Luke xx. 47; James 27.
[7.15] Mischna, Sota, iii. 4.
[7.16] Talmud of Babylon, Sota 22 a; Comp. I. Tim. v. 13.
[7.17] Acts vi. 1.
[7.18] Ibid, xii, 12.
[7.19] I. Tim. v. 9, and following. Compare Acts ix. 39, 41.
[7.20] I. Tim. v. 3, and following.
[7.21] Ecclesiastes vii. 27; Ecclesiasticus vii. 26, and following; ix. 1, and following; xxv. 22, and following; xxvi. 1, and following; xiii. 9, and following.
[7.22] For the costume of the widows of the Eastern Church, see the Greek manuscript No. 64 in the Bibliothèque Imperiale (old building), fol. 11. The costume to this day is very nearly the same the type, the religious female of the East, being the widow, as that of the Latin nun is the virgin.
[7.23] Compare the “Shepherd” of Hermas, vis. ii. ch. 4.
[7.24] Καλογρία, the name of the religious females or nuns of the Eastern Church. Καλός combines the significance of both “beautiful” and “good.”
[7.25] See Note 7.16.
[7.26] I. Cor. xii. entire.
[7.27] The Pietist congregations of America, who are to the Protestants what convents are to the Catholics, resemble in many points the primitive churches. Bridel, Recits Americains. (Lausanne, 1861.)
[7.28] Prov. iii. 27, and following; x. 2; xi. 4; xxii. 9; xxviii. 27; Eccl. iii. 23, and following; vii. 36; xii. 1, and following; xviii. 14; xx. 13, and following; xxxi. 11; Tobit, ii. 15, 22; iv. 11; xii. 9; xiv. 11; Daniel iv. 24; Talmud of Jerusalem; Peah. 15, b.
[7.29] Matthew vi. 2; Mischna, Schekalim, v. 6; Talmud of Jerusalem, Demai, fol. 23, b.
[7.30] Acts x. 2, 4, 31.
[7.31] Ps. cxxxiii.
[7.32] Acts ii. 44–47; iv. 32–35.
[7.33] Ibid. ii. 41.
[7.34] See chapter vi.
[7.35] Acts vi. 5; xi. 20.