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Apostolic Tradition, as this text is best known, was identified in the early years of the twentieth century as the work of Hippolytus, a Christian leader from third-century Rome. The text provides liturgical information of great antiquity, and as such has been massively influential on liturgical study and reform, especially in Western churches. Nonetheless, there have been a number of problems...

The first sentence is supplied from Testament of the Lord, slightly adapted by dropping reference to male virgins. This accords with the suggestion of Dix that a sentence had dropped out of this chapter on grounds of apparent repetitiousness, but that something more was required than the Sahidic preserves.202 Unfortunately the Aksumite Ethiopic version omits this chapter. 1When a widow is appointed she does not receive laying on of hands but is chosen by
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