doctors of the Law is what they want to be, but they have no idea either of the meaning of the words they use or of the themes on which they harp.

he must keep in mind that no law is ever made for honest people but for the lawless and the insubordinate, for the impious and the sinful, for the irreverent and the profane, for parricides and matricides, murderers,

Now I want the men to offer prayer at any meeting of the church; and let the hands they lift to heaven be holy ??they must be free from anger and dissension.

I allow no woman to teach or dictate to men, she must keep quiet.

(if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?);

he must not be a new convert, in case he gets conceited and incurs the doom passed on the devil;

Let no one slight you because you are a youth, but set the believers an example of speech, behaviour, love, faith, and purity.

No one under sixty is to be put on the church's list of widows; and she must have been only once married,

Besides, they become idle unconsciously by gadding about from one house to another ??and not merely idle but gossips and busybodies, repeating things they have no right to mention.

who alone has immortality, who dwells in light that none can approach, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honour and eternal dominion: Amen.