el اد λυγμα κεχωρίσθω τῶν ἁγίων πλὼ ἐν τοῖς ἐμπαίγμασιν αὐτῶν, από το μπερέως σε δεν προσφέρεσιν, οὐδὲ ἔπιτελέσιν, ἀλλὰ τόug you μίζεσι των λίθων * μπερέα, πριμύοντες τί προςαξὶ ποιῶν αὐτοῖς, Ο πάντα ἃ ἂν προςξῃ αὐτοῖς, ἐκείνα ότι τελέσι, ο απο αυτό ποιᾶσιν ἐθεν, καὶ τιμῶ σιν αὐτὸν Ἡ μηερέα, & σε τὸν αὐτὸ ἡγεν3 ὄνομα, εἰς τιμων τῶν ἀψύχων ξοάνων, καὶ εἰς λατρεία τῶν πονηρῶν πνευμάτων. εἰ ἐν ἐκεῖ ναι μάταια κα શ્વે διε μουσεία" δοξάζοντες, καὶ ἐπ' ἐδενὶ βεβαίῳ γοντες ἢ ἑαυτῶν ἐλπί. δα, όπιτηδεύεσι μιμάπου του ἅγια πίσω δίκαιον ὑμᾶς τὰς φανοτάτην πίςιν και άνω fo δῆ ἐν πεδα ἔχοντας, κ επ 1 2 2 the very Mouth of their Idols of Stone, waiting to fee what Commands he will lay upon them. And whatfoever he commands them, that they do, and without him they do nothing; and they honour him their pretended Prieft, and elteem his Name as venerable in honour of lifelers Statues, and in order to the Worlip of wicked Spirits. If these Heathens therefore, who give Glory to lying Vanities, and place their Hope upon nothing that is firm, endeavour to imitate the facred Rules, how much more realonable is it that you, who have a most certain Faith, and undoubted Hope, and who exped glorious, and eternal, and ne ver failing Promifes, fhould honour God in thole fet o ver you, and elteem your Bitop to be the Mouth of God fhop o ἔνδοξον & αἰώνιον" ο αδιάπλωτον ἐπαγγελίδῳ ἀπεκδε ποιμίες, τιμᾶ. Καὶ τῶν προετώτων κύριον Θεὸν, ἡδε μήνες τόκα Θεῖ εἶναι τὸς Ἐπισκόπες · εψευσμένα. V. : defunt. v. For 1 3 XXIX. For if Aaron, because he Excd, vii. I. Εἰ γ Ααρών επει " yes, wogonins aрnty, Moms Eos & daeaw, as Band's oper @ αρχιερούς, ώς φησίν DεDS wey's AUTúr Θεός προς αὐτίν eov TENDEING CE TUS Daеaw, & 'Aav å αδελφός σε ένα σε προ εν μὴ & declar'd to Pharaoh the Words δή ήγειλε τω Φαραω XXX. For now the Deacon is to **Pag. you Aaron, and the Bishop φήτης 2 As T's pedites ipar ys, wegantas avay νομίσητε, ὲ ὡς Θεός σε βαπήσεσθε; **Νιώ γ ' ὑμῖν τ 'Aaer & Sying I 243 Moles. If therefore Mofes was, Mauons ÿo biocalled a God by the Lord, let the Bishop be honour'd among you as a God, and the Deacon as his Prophet. For as Chrift does nothing without his Father, fo neither does the Deacon do any thing without his Bishop: And as the Son without his Father is nothing, fo is the Deacon nothing without his Bishop; and as the Son is с To Cmonews & woep fubject to his Father, fo is 2 SECT. XVII. ΜΗδὲν 5 ποιείτω 3 L ET him not do Γεώολον ἄνου το Ligv. v. 2 deeft, V. any thing XXXI. at all without his Bishop, nor give any thing without his Confent. For if he gives to any one as to a Perfon in Diftrefs, without the Bishop's Knowledge, he gives it fo that it must tend to the Reproach of the Bishop, and he accules him as carelers of the Diftreffed. But he that cafts Reproach on his Bishop, either by Word or Deed, oppofes God, not hearkening to what he fays, Thou shalt Exod.xxii. not speak Evil of the Gods. 28. For he did not make that Ou z 8 wki xil w v XXXII. xii. 8. Εἰ εν γινώσκεις, ὦ Κάκονε, θλιβόμμον va, aurious & &ὑπομνήσας πίσκοπον, ἔτω δίδε Xá jen zateaíws eis oddejav avт8 ʼn 67rind, ira un naragesγυσμὸν ἐγείρης κατ' αυ T & S NAT ano 205τισμός γενήσεται, ἀλλὰ If therefore, O Deacon, thou knoweft any one to be in Distress, put the Bishop in mind of him, and fo give to him; but do nothing in a clandeftine way, fo as may tend to his Reproach, left thou raufe a Murmur againft him. For the Murmur will not be againft him, but against the Lord God: And wels To CEOU, C the Deacon, with the reft, will hear what Aaron and Miriam heard, when they Maeia Targλý Numb. fpake against Mofes, How is it that ye were not afraid to fpeak againt my Servant Mo fes? And again, Mofes lays to thole who rofe up againit him, Tour Murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord our God. For if He that calls Exod. xvi. 8 deeft. V. 2 anéœery · Hánov Q@ οἱ λοιποί, ὡς Ααρών one of the Laity Raka, or Mat.v.22. Fool, fhall not be unpunish'd, as doing Injury to the Name of Chrift, how dare any Man speak against his Bishop, by whom the Lord gave the Holy Spirit among you upon *.* Pag the laying on of his Hands, 244by whom ye have learn'd the facred Doctrines, and have known God, and have believ'd in Chrift, by whom ye were known of God, by whom ye were fealed with the Oil of Gladness, and the Ointment of Understanding, by whom ye were declar'd to be the Children of Light, by whom the Lord in your Illumination teftified by the Impofition of the Bishop's Hands, and fent out his facred Voice upon every one of you, faying, Thou art my Son, this Day have I begotten thee. By thy Bishop, O Man, God adopts thee for his Child. Acknowledge, O Son, that Right Hand which was a Mother to thee. Love him who, after God, is become deest. V. deest. V. l. deeft. V. V, Pfal, ii. 73 |