²⁰⁵ And of the preparing a table for the poor.

²⁰⁶ [A very strange title in many respects. But see p, 239, supra.]

²⁰⁷ 1Leighton, Works, edited by West, of Nairn, vol. vi. p. 243, note. London, Longmans, 1870.

²⁰⁸ 21 Cor. xi. 29-34. Chyrstom evidently has in view the apostle's argument, based on the Communion as a Synaxis, and not on its hierurgic aspects.

²⁰⁹ 3Mendham's Literary Policy of the Church of Rome (passim), and also the old work of James, On the Corruption of Scripture, Councils, and Fathers, a new edition. London: Parker, 1843.

¹ Eph. iv, 16; 1 Cor. xii. 12-30. I have little doubt that our author's theory was guided by his conceptions of this passage, and by Ignatian traditions.

² 1 Cor. xii. 28.

³ See Guettee's Exposition, p, 93.

⁴ Of which, hereafter, in an elucidation. See Guettee, p. 383.

⁵ P. 368, vol. i. Edin. edition.

⁶ Mlilman's History of Christianity, vol, ii. p. 190, note b. See note, p. 266.

⁷ Epistle ii.

⁸ P. 328, Ed. Edinburgh.

⁹ See p. 265.

¹ [Here put for the chief in the sacerdocy. See p. 268, infra.]

² [St. Luke xx. 35. Creature-meritis not implied, but, through grace, the desert of Matt. xxv. 21.]

³ 1 Tim. iii. 6.

⁴ Acts viii; 37.

⁵ [A proselte rather, known in legends as Indich. Vol. i. p. 433.]

⁶ [Elucidation I.]

⁷ [See above note I,this page.]

⁸ [The charismataa of a higher ministry.]

⁹ [Nor does it make any one so. But the Fathers seem to have thought it made good men more humble.]

¹⁰ [This heathen word thus comes into use as applicable to all bishops. It was used derisively by Tertullian, vol. iv. p. 74.]

¹¹ [Pontius is said to have followed his beloved bishop, a.d.. 258 dying a martyr.]

¹² [See Origen, "weeks of years," vol. iv. p. 353.]

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