The Sinodos
Section 16
Statute 15. Concerning the ordination of a Reader (anaguenestis). Said Ya'ekob, that a reader shall be ordained after he has been first tried. He shall not be of many words, nor a drunkard, nor a scoffer. And he shall be of good character, and a lover of the good ; one who is quick to go every day to the church, who remembers there the judgment ; and he shall be obedient, and one who reads well, and who knows the duty (lit. place) of him who reads, that he should do according to what he reads ; and one who fills the ear of others with his word, ought he not to do it himself? Will it not be written against him as a sin before God ?
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Text. The Rev. G. Horner, The Statutes of the Apostles, 1904. Public domain by age. Horner's English of the Ge'ez Sinodos he prints in the same volume, recovered from the scan by the word coordinates rather than by its plain OCR. Not audited: no independent reference counts exist for this text. His own numbering is kept, including the two statutes he numbers 40.