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The Apostolic Church-Ordinance (or ''Apostolic Church-Order'', ''Apostolic Church-Directory'' or ''Constitutio Ecclesiastica Apostolorum'') is a Christian treatise which belongs to ''genre'' of the Church Orders. The work can be dated at the end of 3rd century CE. The provenience is usually regarded as Egypt, or perhaps Syria. The author is unknown. This text served as a law-code for the Egyptian, Ethiopian, and Arabian churches, and it superseded in authority and esteem the Didache, under which name it sometimes went. ==Manuscript Tradition== The full and original text, in Greek, was found in a 12th-century manuscript discovered in 1843 at Vienna and published〔Geschichte des Kirchenrechts, Giessen, 1843, I, 107-132.〕 in the same year by Johann Wilhelm Bickell,〔Johann Wilhelm Bickell was professor of canon law at the University of Marburg, and died (1848) as minister of justice of Hesse-Kassel. He was the father of Gustav Bickell.〕 which named it ''Apostolische Kirchenordnung''. Only other four fragmentary Greek manuscripts are extant. A complete Syriac ancient translation, with English translation, was published in 1901 by John Peter Arendzen.〔''Journal of Theol. Studies'', October 1901.〕 The Ge'ez version was first published in 1691 by Hiob Ludolf.〔In the "Commentarius" to his "Historia Ethiopica" (Frankfort 1691).〕 The Apostolic Church-Ordinance usually is found also in ancient collections of Church Orders. It is the second book in the Verona Palimpsest, it is the first book in the Alexandrine Sinodos and in the Bohairic version of the ''Clementine Octateuch'', while the Arabic version of the ''Clementine Octateuch'' has it in the second place, and the Syriac version of it has it in the third place. Thus we have many early translations of the Apostolic Church-Ordinance in Latin, Ge'ez, Bohairic Coptic, Sahidic Coptic, Arabic and Syriac. For the publication details of these versions, see articles about the relevant collections. The titles found on the manuscripts can be different, so the Bohairic ''Alexandrine Sinodos'' version is entitled "''Canons of our Fathers the Holy Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, which they appointed in the Churches''", while the Syriac version has "''Third book of Clement, Teaching of the twelve Apostles''". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Apostolic Church-Ordinance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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