per

Am I not able to write to you of heavenly things?—But I fear lest I should harm you, who are yet but babes in Christ: (excuse me this care;) and lest per chance being not able to receive them, ye should be choken with them.

The decree of the king ran as follows: 'All who served in the army of our father in the campaign against Syria and Phoenicia and in the attack upon the country of the Jews and became possessed of Jewish captives and brought them back to the city of Alexandria and the land of Egypt or sold them to others--and in the same way any captives who were in our land before that time or were brought hither afterwards--all who possess such captives are required to set them at liberty at once, receiving twenty drachmae per head as ransom money.

OF DEACONS The deacon is appointed, chosen like the things which have before been spoken of. If he be of good conduct,’ if he be pure, if he have been chosen for purity and for ab- stinence from distractions; if not, yet [if he] be the husband of one wife,’ borne witness to by all the faithful, not en- tangled in the businesses of the world, not knowing a handicraft, without riches, without children. But if he be married 1 or have children, let his children be taught to work piety 1 and to be pure, so that they may be approved by the Church,’8 according to the rule of the ministry. But let the Church take care for them, so that they may per- severe in the law and in the work of the ministry.