[7.22] For the costume of the widows of the Eastern Church, see the Greek manuscript No. 64 in the _Bibliothèque Imperiale_ (old building), fol. 11. The costume to this day is very nearly the same the type, the religious female of the East, being the widow, as that of the Latin nun is the virgin. [7.23] Compare the "Shepherd" of Hermas, vis. ii. ch. 4. [7.24] Καλογρία, the name of the religious females or nuns of the Eastern Church. Καλός combines the significance of both "beautiful" and "good." [7.25] See Note 7.16. [7.26] I. Cor. xii. entire. [7.27] The Pietist congregations of America, who are to the Protestants what convents are to the Catholics, resemble in many points the primitive churches. Bridel, _Recits Americains_. (Lausanne, 1861.) [7.28] Prov. iii. 27, and following; x. 2; xi. 4; xxii. 9; xxviii. 27; Eccl. iii. 23, and following; vii. 36; xii. 1, and following; xviii. 14; xx. 13, and following; xxxi. 11; Tobit, ii. 15, 22; iv. 11; xii. 9; xiv. 11; Daniel iv. 24; Talmud of Jerusalem; _Peah_. 15, _b_. [7.29] Matthew vi. 2; Mischna, _Schekalim_, v. 6; Talmud of Jerusalem, _Demai_, fol. 23, _b_. [7.30] _Acts_ x. 2, 4, 31. [7.31] Ps. cxxxiii. [7.32] _Acts_ ii. 44-47; iv. 32-35. [7.33] Ibid. ii. 41. [7.34] See chapter vi. [7.35] _Acts_ vi. 5; xi. 20. CHAPTER VIII. [8.1] Acts iv. 6. See _Life of Jesus_. [8.2] Acts iv. 1-31; v. 47-41. [8.3] See _Life of Jesus_. [8.4] Acts v. 41. [8.5] Ib. iv. 5-6; v. 17. Comp. James ii. 6. [8.6] Γένος αρχιερατιχον, Acts i.; αρχιερεις in Josephus _Ant._ xx. viii. 8. [8.7] Acts xv. 5; xxi. 20. [8.8] Let us add that the reciprocal antipathy of Jesus and the Pharisees seems to have been exaggerated by the synoptical Evangelists, perhaps on account of the events which, at the time of the great war, led to the flight of the Christians beyond the Jordan. It cannot be denied that James, brother of the Lord, was pretty nearly a Pharisee. [8.9] Acts v. 34, and following. See _Life of Jesus_. [8.10] Acts vi. 8; vii. 59. [8.11] Probably descendants of Jews who had been taken to Rome as slaves, and then freed. Philo, _Leg. ad Caium_, § 23; Tacitus, _Ann._ ii. 85. [8.12] See _Life of Jesus_. [8.13] Matt. xv. 2, and following; Mark vii. 3; Gal. i. 14. [8.14] Compare Gal. iii. 19; Heb. ii. 2; Jos. Ant. XV. v. 3. It was supposed that God Himself had not revealed Himself in the theophanies of the ancient law, but that he had substituted in his place a sort of intermediary, the _maleak Jehovah_. See the Hebrew dictionaries on the word מלאך. [8.15] Deut. xvii. 7. [8.16] Acts vii. 59; xxii. 20; xxvi 10. [8.17] John xviii. 31. [8.18] Josephus, Ant. XVIII. iv. 2.