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Work: Testament of Our Lord
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Testament of Our Lord — Cooper/Maclean1902 English
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196 NOTES [I. 38, 39 § 16), it is said that the deacon does service for presbyters as well as for the bishop. The Statuta Ecclesiae Antiqua, § 4 (qu. by Wordsworth, Ministry of Grace, 166, who calls them the “ Gallican Statutes”), give the same reason for the bishop alone ordaining a deacon—“ because he is consecrated not to the priesthood (sacerdotium), but for service (ministerium). The eighteenth canon of Nicaea says that deacons are the servants (ianpéras) of the bishop. ORDINATION Prayer ror A Deacon. The prayer in C.H. 39-42 is quite different; it alludes to St.Stephen. Sarapion’s prayer…
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