[2] =Hyper de tês kephalês phorei pilon akônon, ou diiknoumenon eis pasan autên, all' ep' oligon, hyperbebêkota mesês; kaleitai men mesnaemphthês. tê de kataskeuê toioutos estin hos stephanê dokein, ex hyphasmatos, lineou tainia pepoiêmenê pacheia, kai gar epiptyssomenon rhaptetai pollakis. hepeita sindôn anôthen auton ekperierchetai diêkousa mechri metôpou, tên te rhaphên tês tainias kai to ap' autês aprepes kalyptousa=—Translation from Whiston. [3] =Hyphantheis epi bathos pêchyaion ek te chrômatôn pantoiôn kai chrysou sympepoikilmenou, ... cheirisi te êskêmenos, kai tô panti schêmati chitôn einai pepoiêmenos.= [4] =Hyper auton de synerrhammenos heteros ex hyakinthou pepoikilmenos, perierchetai de stephanos chryseos epi tristoichian kechalkeumenos. thallei d' ep' autô kalyx, chryseos tê sakcharô botanê par hêmin legomenê apomemimêmenos, hyos de kyamon Hellênôn.= [5] I, cap. xiv _et seq._ (Migne, 'Patrologia,' vol. cvii, col. 306). [6] Such a vestment as the _talith_ is not here considered, for this is worn by all the worshippers alike, as well as by the officiating minister. [7] Hieron. in Ezek., cap. xliv. 'Religio divina alterum habitum habet in ministerio alterum in usu vitaque communi.' [8] =Euxamenos oun kath' heauton ho archiereus hama tois hiereusin kai lampran esthêta metendys kai stas pros tô thysiastêriô to tropaion tou staurou kata tou metôpou ton cheiri poiêsamenos eipatô k.t.l.= [9] 'Per quae discimus non quotidianis et quibuslibet pro usu vitae communis pollutis vestibus nos ingredi debere in sancta sanctorum sed munda conscientia et mundis vestibus tenere Domini sacramenta.'—Hieron. in Ezek., cap. xliv. [10] 'Adjungis gloriam vestium et ornamentorum Deo esse contrariam. Quae sunt rogo inimicitiae contra Deum si tunicam habuero mundiorem? si episcopus presbyter et diaconus et reliquus ordo ecclesiasticus in administratione sacrificiorum candida veste processerint?'—Hieron., Adv. Pelagianos, lib. i, cap. 9. [11] See Liddell and Scott, Greek Lexicon, edit, maj., _sub voce_. [12] Polyb., 10, 5, 1. [13] See Chapter VI. [14] 1 Cor. xiv 26. [Illustration] [Illustration] CHAPTER II. THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF ECCLESIASTICAL VESTMENTS IN THE WESTERN CHURCH. The last chapter has carried us down to the end of the fourth century A.D. For some time back the Roman Empire had been showing signs of disintegration. Already the three sons of Constantine had divided the imperial power among themselves; but the rule thus severed had again been united in the person of Constantius. In 395, however, the emperor Theodosius died, and left the empire of the world to be parted between his two sons, Arcadius and Honorius.