Testament of Our Lord

tr. Cooper and Maclean, 1902

29. Book I, Chapter 29

Of What Sort a Presbyter Ought to be

Let a presbyter be ordained,¹ being testified to by all the people, according to what has been said before; skilled in reading, meek, poor, not money-loving,² 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; if³ 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.

Notes

χειροτονηθείς transliterated from accusative singular (?), but the termination is misprinted in Rahmani’s Syriac text.
ἀφιλάργυρος. See I. 20.
Lit.: that.