¹³⁶ Acts vi. and vii.

¹³⁷ One V. ms. has the following note: "Bartholomew preached the Gospel according to Matthew to the Indians, who also has been buried in India."

¹³⁸ Ex. xv. 20; Judg. iv. 4; Luke ii. 36; 2 Kings xxii. 14.

¹³⁹ 2 Cor. vii. 1.

¹⁴⁰ One V ms. has the following note: "Thomas preached to the Parthians, Medes, Persians, Germans, Hyrcanians, Bactrians, Bardians, who also, having been a martyr, lies in Edessa of Osdroene."

¹⁴¹ The words "for you the bishops" are omitted in the Oxford ms.

¹⁴² [See vol. v. Elucidation XIV. p. 417.]

¹⁴³ Num. iii.; 1 Chron. vi.

¹⁴⁴ The Oxford ms. has no part of this chapter. It reads: "A reader is appointed when the bishop gives him a book; for there is no imposition of hands."

¹⁴⁵ Neh. viii.

¹⁴⁶ The Coptic reads, "let him be ordained."

¹⁴⁷ 1 Tim. v. 8.

¹⁴⁸ 1 Cor. vii. 25.

¹⁴⁹ The two V. mss. have the following note: "Thaddaeus, also called Lebbaeus, and who was surnamed Judas the Zealot, preached the truth to the Edessenes and the people of Mesopotamia when Abgarus ruled over Edessa, and has been buried in Berytus of Phoenicia."

¹⁵⁰ Judith xvi. 21, 23.

¹⁵¹ Luke ii. 36, etc.

¹⁵² The Coptic has, "let him be ordained."

¹⁵³ Ch. xxvii., xxviii., xxx.-xxxiv., and ch. xlii.-xlvii., occur in Syriac and Coptic, as well as in the Greek mss.

¹⁵⁴ One V. ms. has the following note: "Simon the Canaanite, preacher of the truth, is crowned with martyrdom in Judea in the reign of Domitian."

¹⁵⁵ The words from "concerning" to "constitution" are omitted in the Oxford ms., in Syriac, and Coptic.

¹⁵⁶ This chapter is not found in the Coptic and Syriac. One V. ms. has the following note: "Matthew (probably a mistake for Matthias) taught the doctrines of Christ in Judea, and was one of the seventy disciples. After the ascension of Christ he was numbered with the twelve apostles, instead of Judas, who was the betrayer. He lies in Jerusalem."

¹⁵⁷ Ps. civ. 15.

¹⁵⁸ The Oxford ms. reads: "I the same, Simon the Canaanite, make a constitution."

¹⁵⁹ "Deacons" omitted in Oxford ms. and in Coptic.

¹⁶⁰ "Two," Oxford ms.

¹⁶¹ "One," Oxford ms.

¹⁶² One V. ms. has the following instead of the title: "Paul, the teacher of the Gentiles, having proclaimed the Gospel of Christ to the Gentiles from Jerusalem even to Illyricum, was cut off in Rome while teaching the truth, by Nero and King Agrippa, being beheaded, and has been buried in Rome itself."

¹⁶³ [Note this uniform testimony of antiquity against theatricals in all forms.]

¹⁶⁴ [Purveyors to the play-house.]

¹⁶⁵ Luke iii. 14.

¹⁶⁶ [Compare vol. v. p. 130, note 1.]

¹⁶⁷ John vi. 45.

¹⁶⁸ Eph. vi.; Col. iv.; Philem.

¹⁶⁹ The Coptic adds, "the holy mother of God."

¹⁷⁰ [Compare vol. iii. pp. 164, 352.]

¹⁷¹ One V. ms., Coptic, and Syriac omit "first."

¹⁷² The Syriac and Coptic add: "and His side being wounded, blood and water came forth."

¹⁷³ Matt. xviii. 20. [A token that much of these constitutions is truly primitive.]

¹⁷⁴ 2 Cor. vi. 14. [Compare p. 483, supra: Energumens?]

¹⁷⁵ The words from "I, James" to "ordain thus" are omitted in the V mss., and the following words are given instead in the two V. mss.: "James, the brother of the Lord, has been killed with stones (the other ms. reads, `with sticks0') by the Jews in Jerusalem on account of the doctrines of Christ." Ch. xxxv.-xli. are omitted in the Oxford ms., and in Syriac and Coptic.