CHAPTER VII.

[7.1] See the accounts collected and translated by Eugene Burnouf. _Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism_, i. p. 137, and following pages, and particularly pp. 198, 199.

[7.2] See _Life of Jesus_.

[7.3] _Acts_ ii. 45; iv. 34, 37; v. 1.

[7.4] _Acts_ v. 1, and following verses.

[7.5] Ibid. ii. 45; iv. 35.

[7.6] Ibid. vi. 1, &c.

[7.7] See chapter vi.

[7.8] _Acts_ xxi. 8.

[7.9] Phil. i. 1; I. Timothy iii. 8, and following.

[7.10] Romans xvi. 1, 12; I. Tim. iii. 11; v. 9, and following. Pliny Epist. x. 97. The Epistles to Timothy are most probably not from the pen of Saint Paul; but are in any event of very ancient date.

[7.11] Rom. xvi. 1; I. Cor. ix. 5. Philemon 2.

[7.12] I. Tim. v. 9, and following.

[7.13] Constit. Apost. vi. 17.

[7.14] Sap. ii. 10; Eccl. xxxvii. 17; Matthew xxiii. 14; Mark xii. 40; Luke xx. 47; James 27.

[7.15] Mischna, _Sota_, iii. 4.

[7.16] Talmud of Babylon, Sota 22 a; Comp. I. Tim. v. 13.

[7.17] Acts vi. 1.

[7.18] Ibid, xii, 12.

[7.19] I. Tim. v. 9, and following. Compare Acts ix. 39, 41.

[7.20] I. Tim. v. 3, and following.

[7.21] Ecclesiastes vii. 27; Ecclesiasticus vii. 26, and following; ix. 1, and following; xxv. 22, and following; xxvi. 1, and following; xiii. 9, and following.

[7.22] For the costume of the widows of the Eastern Church, see the Greek manuscript No. 64 in the _Bibliothèque Imperiale_ (old building), fol. 11. The costume to this day is very nearly the same the type, the religious female of the East, being the widow, as that of the Latin nun is the virgin.

[7.23] Compare the "Shepherd" of Hermas, vis. ii. ch. 4.

[7.24] Καλογρία, the name of the religious females or nuns of the Eastern Church. Καλός combines the significance of both "beautiful" and "good."

[7.25] See Note 7.16.

[7.26] I. Cor. xii. entire.

[7.27] The Pietist congregations of America, who are to the Protestants what convents are to the Catholics, resemble in many points the primitive churches. Bridel, _Recits Americains_. (Lausanne, 1861.)

[7.28] Prov. iii. 27, and following; x. 2; xi. 4; xxii. 9; xxviii. 27; Eccl. iii. 23, and following; vii. 36; xii. 1, and following; xviii. 14; xx. 13, and following; xxxi. 11; Tobit, ii. 15, 22; iv. 11; xii. 9; xiv. 11; Daniel iv. 24; Talmud of Jerusalem; _Peah_. 15, _b_.

[7.29] Matthew vi. 2; Mischna, _Schekalim_, v. 6; Talmud of Jerusalem, _Demai_, fol. 23, _b_.

[7.30] _Acts_ x. 2, 4, 31.

[7.31] Ps. cxxxiii.

[7.32] _Acts_ ii. 44-47; iv. 32-35.

[7.33] Ibid. ii. 41.

[7.34] See chapter vi.

[7.35] _Acts_ vi. 5; xi. 20.