About the election of Elders. Let an Elder be ordained when he has the
witness of all the people, like what was said before about the Bishop, wise
in reading, humble, gentle, poor, not a lover of money, who has laboured
much in the services of the weak, who has been proved, and is pure without
a stain; if he have been a father to the orphans; if he have served the poor ;
if he have not stayed away from church ; who in everything excels in piety ;
as he has been, let him be worthy in all things that have been revealed to
us by God, those that are useful and those that are suitable, as those [men]
are also worthy of the gifts of healing.