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The Teaching of the Apostles

Anonymous Syriac compiler

Section 4

About this work

A work transmitted under apostolic authority that presents instruction for Christian belief, conduct, worship, or community order within the broad and textually complex church-order tradition.

Author: Anonymous Syriac compiler
Traditional attribution: The Apostles
Date: Probably 4th century
Origin: Syria
Genre: Church Order

The generic title is used for more than one textual tradition; the exact corpus witness must be identified before firmer metadata is supplied.

4. The apostles further appointed: On the

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eve

of

the

Sabbath

,

at

the

ninth

hour

,

let

there

be

service

:

because

that

which

had

been

spoken

on

the

fourth

day

of

the

week

about

the

suffering

of

the

Saviour

was

brought

to

pass

on

the

same

eve

;

the

worlds

and

creatures

trembling

,

and

the

luminaries

in

the

heavens

being

darkened

.

4. Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia, and Galatia, even to Pontus, received the apostles’ ordination to the priesthood from Simon Cephas, who himself laid the foundation of the church there, and was priest and ministered there up to the time when he went up from thence to Rome on account of Simon the sorcerer, who was deluding the people of Rome with his sorceries.

Notes

20
Lit. “ the evening,” but used in particular of the evening of the sixth day of the week, the eve of the seventh: the evening being regarded, as in Gen. i. 5, as the first part of the day. Similarly, παρασκευή , which the Peshito translates by our word, is used in the Gospels for the sixth day, with a prospective reference to the seventh.—Tr.
59
C. adds, “and built a church at Antioch.”
60
See note 3, p. 673, infra.