Chapter VII

[7.1] See the accounts collected and translated by Eugene Burnouf.
_Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism_, i. p. 137,
and following pages, and particularly pp. 198, 199.

[7.2] See _Life of Jesus_.

[7.3] _Acts_ ii. 45; iv. 34, 37; v. 1.

[7.4] _Acts_ v. 1, and following verses.

[7.5] Ibid. ii. 45; iv. 35.

[7.6] Ibid. vi. 1, &c.

[7.7] See chapter vi.

[7.8] _Acts_ xxi. 8.

[7.9] Phil. i. 1; I. Timothy iii. 8, and following.

[7.10] Romans xvi. 1, 12; I. Tim. iii. 11; v. 9, and following.
Pliny Epist. x. 97. The Epistles to Timothy are most probably
not from the pen of Saint Paul; but are in any event of very
ancient date.

[7.11] Rom. xvi. 1; I. Cor. ix. 5. Philemon 2.

[7.12] I. Tim. v. 9, and following.

[7.13] Constit. Apost. vi. 17.

[7.14] Sap. ii. 10; Eccl. xxxvii. 17; Matthew xxiii. 14; Mark xii.
40; Luke xx. 47; James 27.

[7.15] Mischna, _Sota_, iii. 4.

[7.16] Talmud of Babylon, Sota 22 a; Comp. I. Tim. v. 13.

[7.17] Acts vi. 1.

[7.18] Ibid, xii, 12.

[7.19] I. Tim. v. 9, and following. Compare Acts ix. 39, 41.

[7.20] I. Tim. v. 3, and following.

[7.21] Ecclesiastes vii. 27; Ecclesiasticus vii. 26, and following;
ix. 1, and following; xxv. 22, and following; xxvi. 1, and
following; xiii. 9, and following.

[7.22] For the costume of the widows of the Eastern Church, see the
Greek manuscript No. 64 in the _Bibliothèque Imperiale_ (old
building), fol. 11. The costume to this day is very nearly the
same the type, the religious female of the East, being the
widow, as that of the Latin nun is the virgin.

[7.23] Compare the "Shepherd" of Hermas, vis. ii. ch. 4.

[7.24] Καλογρία, the name of the religious females or nuns of the
Eastern Church. Καλός combines the significance of both
"beautiful" and "good."

[7.25] See Note 7.16.

[7.26] I. Cor. xii. entire.

[7.27] The Pietist congregations of America, who are to the
Protestants what convents are to the Catholics, resemble
in many points the primitive churches. Bridel, _Recits
Americains_. (Lausanne, 1861.)

[7.28] Prov. iii. 27, and following; x. 2; xi. 4; xxii. 9; xxviii.
27; Eccl. iii. 23, and following; vii. 36; xii. 1, and
following; xviii. 14; xx. 13, and following; xxxi. 11; Tobit,
ii. 15, 22; iv. 11; xii. 9; xiv. 11; Daniel iv. 24; Talmud of
Jerusalem; _Peah_. 15, _b_.

[7.29] Matthew vi. 2; Mischna, _Schekalim_, v. 6; Talmud of
Jerusalem, _Demai_, fol. 23, _b_.

[7.30] _Acts_ x. 2, 4, 31.

[7.31] Ps. cxxxiii.

[7.32] _Acts_ ii. 44-47; iv. 32-35.

[7.33] Ibid. ii. 41.

[7.34] See chapter vi.

[7.35] _Acts_ vi. 5; xi. 20.