. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. Fig. 35.—Letter from Samuel, Jacob, and Aaron, candidatesfor the diaconate, to Bishop Abraham of Hermonthis (?).Coptic ostracon, oirca 600 (verso). Now in the possessionof the Egypt Exploration Fund, by whose permission it isreproduced. [p. 210 ILLUSTRATED BY THE NEW TEXTS 211 second to be written, Crum^ conjectures with goodreasons to be identical with the Bishop of Hermon-this who is known from his will, now extant onpapyrus ^ in the British Museum, to have been Uvingas a
. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. Fig. 35.—Letter from Samuel, Jacob, and Aaron, candidatesfor the diaconate, to Bishop Abraham of Hermonthis (?).Coptic ostracon, oirca 600 (verso). Now in the possessionof the Egypt Exploration Fund, by whose permission it isreproduced. [p. 210 ILLUSTRATED BY THE NEW TEXTS 211 second to be written, Crum^ conjectures with goodreasons to be identical with the Bishop of Hermon-this who is known from his will, now extant onpapyrus ^ in the British Museum, to have been Uvingas an anchorite on the Divine Hill of Memnonianear Thebes, and who died most probably towardsthe end of the 6th cent. ^ I owe the translationof these instructive texts to the kindness of my friendCarl Schmidt, of Berlin.* Recto (-r)* I, Samuel, and Jacob and Aaron, we write to ourholy father Apa Abraham, the ibishop.* Seeing we haverequested* thy paternity that thou wouldest ordain usdeacons,^ we are ready to observe the commands ^^ and canons ^^and to obey those above us and be obedient ^* to the superiorsan
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