The Testament of Our Lord
I. 44
OF SUBDEACONS 4
Similarly let a subdeacon be appointed ® who is chaste,* the bishop praying over him. Let the bishop say over him on the first day of the week, in the hearing of all the people, thus: Thou, O N., minister and hear the Gospel in the fear of God. Cultivate? holily the knowledge of thy soul; keep pureness ; discipline thyself; observe and obey and hear meekly ; neglect not prayers and? fasts, so that the Lord may give thee rest and make thee worthy of a higher degree.®
And let all the priests say: So be it, so be it, so be it.
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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 This is not the Ge'ez: the Ethiopic version of this work was unpublished when they wrote and has no public-domain English still.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.