Epistle
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3. For we may say, to anticipate a little what we intend
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Epistle
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3. For we may say, to anticipate a little what we intend
συνεισάκτους γυναῖκας, priests’-housekeepers. See Lange on Nicephorus vi. 30, and B. Rhenanus on Rufinus, vii. The third canon of the Nicene Council in the Codex Corbeiensis has this title, De subintroductis id est adoptivis sororibus. Of the subintroduced, that is, the adopted sisters.See also on the abuse, Jerome, in the Epistle to Eustochius. They appear also to have been called commanentes and agapetæ. See the note of Valesius in Migne. [Vol. ii. p. 47, and (same vol.) Elucidation II. p. 57.]
ἱερατεῖον.
Referring either to Proverbs vi. or to Ecclesiasticus xxv.