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APOSTOLICAL CONSTITUTIONS (^larayai or Atara£ut rdv o.yiuv aroaroXav did. KXi7/i««'Tos roD 'PuuaLtav ifiaubvov rt ical ToXirou. Ka0oXun) Si<5aa/caXia), a collection of ecclesiastical regulations in eight books, the last of which concludes with the eighty-five ...

... powers to successors constituted by act of ordination. The earliest idea of an apostolical succession meant simply the re-emergence in others of the apostolic spirit of missionary enthusiasm. " The first rank in the succession of the apostles " consisted of m ...

... e rule* for the regulation of clerical life, appended to the eighth book of the Apostolical Constitutions (q.v.). They are couched in brief legislative form though on no definite plan, and deal with the vexed questions of ecclesiastical discipline as they were ...

... he teaching of Barnabas, Clement, Ignatius and Polycarp is by J. Donaldson, The Apostolical Fathers (1874), which, however, suffers from the imperfect state of the texts when he wrote. The most useful edition lor ready reference, containing critical texts (up ...

... elfishness of new tyrannies throughout the Greek world, he condemned the actual constitutions of the Greek states as deviations (jrapeK/3dereis) directed merely to the good of the government; and he contemplated a right constitution (opdfi TroAireta), which mi ...

... e institutions nearer to Western legal usage. We do not here speak of the paper constitutions (khait-i-skerif) and the like, created to impose upon Western diplomatists, but of such things as consular and commercial courts, criminal codes, and so forth. The of ...

... hiefly to the time of the lower empire, in which it depended almost wholly upon constitutions of Theodosius and Valentinian, incorporated in the Theodosian Code (Tit. xy. 5, 6, 7), and a century later to a large extent adopted by Justinian. In the whole of thi ...

... ) and the publication of the Codex Theodosianus (438), a collection of imperial constitutions for the benefit of public officials, which is our chief source of information about, the government of the empire in the 5th century. In 450 Theodosius died of injuri ...

... doxy. 1 If -Harnack is right in regarding a New Testament canon as one of the " Apostolical authorities " which the Church brought into the field against Gnosticism, we see the truth on historical grounds of the position taught on dogmatic grounds by R. Rainy ...

... s, functions and powers of the houses of the legislature, 1 Details as to state constitutions will be found in J. Brvce, American Commonwealth, chs. xxxvii.-xxxix., which is referred to here and subsequently as containing a fuller treatment of all the topics d ...

... phrase duodecim legales homines de vicineto, or its equivalent, is found in the Constitutions of Clarendon (1164), the Assize of the Forest (1184) and in Glanvill. Civil Matters. — Civil actions came to be classified as local and transitory, the former where t ...