Opening the library…
Second Pseudo-Clement
Pseudo-Clementine writer
And if, moreover, it chance that we are distant
i.e., one who has taken the vow of celibacy.
Lit. “will with him minister all those things.”
[The minuteness of all these precepts is of itself suspicious. The “simplicity” of the earlier age had evidently passed when these prohibitions were penned.—R.]
, Beelen’s conjecture for ***, “rich.” Zingerle proposes ***, “about to be married.”
Lit. “come to the delight of the truth.”
Lit. “ask of the peace of.”