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not trouble (tvs%*,su) the bishop (sir.) in anything. But (5s) ii
there be not revenue (vpsr.) therein, so as (X<TTS) to suffice
for the offering (xp.) and the life of the clergy (xA.) and the
oil of the lamps, then the bishop (sV.) giveth * unto them
for these three needs (%pelx). But (SJ)
if again 2 there be
revenue (TT/DJF.) therein, so as (wcrrf) to be more than these
three needs (%p.), the bishop (fV.) 3 shall take * them and use
(;/:.) them, according to (XXTX) the love (xyxTry) of God;
for the whole will of God is in compassion toward the poor.
Yet (~;.>p) let him not forget one 5 that is needy beyond
(TTXJ:X) another, but (x/>/.ai) let equality be among them all. 7
For (yxp) if Paul sought (fTrcu^x^a) to make the cities
equal one with another, how much the more (TraV
the churches (sx.) which are in a single city (TTOA.)? As he
saith in the (Epistle) to the Corinthians (Trpcz KopivQtous), that
your abundance may be for s the want of those, that there
may be equality
for us. Some thou shalt find that are
drunken, whilst others are anhungered. H But as (^AA# oje) a
good governor, let there be equality for all the clergy (jcAi?po?)
which are good. |{| And (5) everything that shall be over and
above for them, let it serve for the needs (%pslx) of the poor.
For (yap) thus hath Christ, the head of the church (ix.), laid
down, He and His apostles (XTT.), the 11 fathers of the clergy
(x/.ypixsz), when He saith in the (Gospel) according to John
(xxrx Ixxvvm sic), Buy what ye need (%/)/#) for the feast;
]2 13 or that I
(/;) may give unto the poor. The Lord first;
afterward the poor of the people. u On this wise let all 15
15. probably >.
2 N. >.
N. a church. r B. >.
3 N. steward. * N. taketh.
N. let him make them equal one with another, that equality be etc.
H. [ ]
i Cor. XI. 21.
2 l
Cor. VIII. 14. For mmon read? nati, or it may = for indeed , (Cf. F.
Robinson, Apocr. Gosp. 203, Crum, Ostr., no. 83), though
by a 10
stop.
N. n >. N. which are the.
Job. XIII. 29.
N. Lord and His disciples (/tz3>fT>K),
> the
people.
in N. it is followed
i* Cf. Mt. XXVI. ii.
5 N. >.