The Testament of Our Lord
I. 29
OF WHAT SORT A PRESBYTER OUGHT TO BE
Let a presbyter be ordained}? being testified to by all the people, according to what has been said before *; skilled in reading, meek, poor? not money-loving,® having laboured much in ministrations among the weak, proved to be pure, without blame; if he have been as a father to the orphans, if he have ministered to the poor; if he have not grown cold [in his love] for the Church’; if* in all things he be pious, quiet, so that being [thus] he may in all respects be worthy to have those things that are fitting and suitable revealed to him by God, and also may be counted worthy of the gift of healing.
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Text. James Cooper and Arthur John Maclean, Edinburgh, 1902. Public domain by age. The Testamentum Domini from the Syriac, recovered from the scan by the word coordinates. This is not the Ge'ez: the Ethiopic version of this work was unpublished when they wrote and has no public-domain English still. Their chapter numbers are the ones printed. Not audited.