Heads of the Canons of Abulide or Hippolytus, Which a re u sed by t he Æt hiopian Christians . 2036 1. Of the holy faith of Jesus Christ. 2037 2. Of bishops. 2038 3. Of prayers spoken on the ordination of bishops, and of the order of the Missa . 2039 4. Of the ordination of presbyters. 5. Of the ordination of deacons. 6. Of those who suffer persecution for the faith. 2040 7. Of the election of reader and sub-deacon. 2041 8. Of the gift of healing. 2042 9. Of the presbyter who abides in a place inconvenient for his office. 2043 10. Of those who are converted to the Christian religion. 11. Of him who makes idols. 2044 12. Various pursuits 2045 are enumerated, the followers of which are not to be admitted to the Christian religion until repentance is exhibited. 2046 13. Of the place which the highest kings or princes shall occupy in the temple. 2047 14. That it is not meet for Christians to bear arms. 2048 15. Of works which are unlawful to Christians. 2049 16. Of the Christian who marries a slave-woman. 2050 17. Of the free woman. 2051 18. Of the midwife; and that the women ought to be separate from the men in prayer. 2052 19. Of the catechumen who suffers martyrdom before baptism. 2053 20. Of the fast of the fourth and sixth holiday; and of Lent. 2054 21. That presbyters should assemble daily with the people in church. 2055 22. Of the week of the Jews’ passover; and of him who knows not passover (Easter). 2056 23. That every one be held to learn doctrine. 2057 24. Of the care of the bishop over the sick. 2058 25. Of him on whom the care of the sick is enjoined; and of the time at which prayers are to be made. 2059 26. Of the time at which exhortations are to be heard. 2060 27. Of him who frequents the temple every day. 2061 28. That the faithful ought to eat nothing before the holy communion. 2062 29. That care is to be well taken that nothing fall from the chalice to the ground. 2063 30. Of catechumens. 2064 31. That a deacon may dispense the Eucharist to the people with permission of a bishop or presbyter. 2065 32. That widows and virgins ought to pray constantly. 2066 33. That commemoration should be made of the faithful dead every day, with the exception of the Lord’s day. 2067 34. Of the sober behaviour of the secular 2068 in church. 2069 35. That deacons may pronounce the benediction and thanksgiving at the love-feasts when a bishop is not present. 2070 36. Of the first-fruits of the earth, and of vows. 2071 37. When a bishop celebrates the holy communion (Synaxis), 2072 the presbyters who stand by him should be clothed in white. 2073 38. That no one ought to sleep on the night of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2074 2036     These were first published in French by Jo. Michael Wanslebius in his book De Ecclesia Alexandrina , Paris, 1677, p. 12; then in Latin, by Job Ludolfus, in his Commentar. ad historiam Æthiopicam , Frankfort, 1691, p. 333; and by William Whiston, in vol. iii. of his Primitive Christianity Revived , published in English at London, 1711, p. 543. He has also noted the passages in the Constitutions Apostolicæ , treating the same matters. 2037     Constit. Apostol ., lib. vi. ch. 11, etc. 2038     Lib. vii. ch. 41. 2039     Lib. vii. ch. 4, 5, 10. [The service of the faithful, Missa Fidelium , not the modern Mass. See Bingham, book xv. The Missa was an innocent word for the dismission of those not about to receive the Communion.  See Guettée, Exposition , etc., p. 433.] 2040     Lib. viii. ch. 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 45. 2041     Lib. viii. ch. 21, 22. 2042     Lib. viii. ch. 1, 2. 2043     Lib. viii. ch. 46, 32. 2044     Lib. viii. ch. 46, 32. 2045     Studia . 2046     Lib. viii. ch. 46, 32. 2047     Wanting. 2048     Lib. viii. ch. 32. 2049     Lib. viii. ch. 32. 2050     Lib. viii. ch. 32. 2051     Lib. viii. ch. 32. 2052     Lib. ii. ch. 57. 2053     Lib. v. ch. 6. 2054     Lib. v. ch. 13, 15. 2055     Lib. ii. ch. 36. 2056     Lib. v. ch. 15, etc. 2057     Lib. vii. ch. 39, 40, 41. 2058     Lib. iv. ch. 2. 2059     Lib. iii. ch. 19, viii. ch. 34. 2060     Lib. viii. ch. 32. 2061     Lib. ii. ch. 59. 2062     Wanting. 2063     Wanting, 2064     Lib. vii. ch. 39, etc. 2065     Lib. viii. ch. 28. 2066     Lib. iii. ch. 6, 7, 13. 2067     Lib iv. ch. 14, viii. ch. 41–44. 2068     i.e., laymen. 2069     Lib. ii. ch. 57. 2070     Wanting. 2071     Or offerings. Lib. ii. ch. 25. 2072     [Synaxis. Elucidation II.] 2073     Lib. vii. ch. 29, viii. 30, 31. (See the whole history of ecclesiastical antiquity, on this point, in the learned work of Wharton B. Marriott, Vestiarium Christianum , London, Rivingtons, 1868.] 2074     Lib. viii. ch. 12, v. ch. 19.