Chrys. in Matt.
Hom. lxxiv. § 3: “You ought to have within you the
wall that separates you from the women: but since ye will not,
our fathers have thought it necessary to separate you at least by these
boards; for I have heard from my elders that there were not these walls
in old times.” These barriers had not yet been introduced
at Jerusalem, or Cyril’s admonition would have been
needless. Compare Apostolic Constitutions, II.
57.