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Rh office upon any one, or to go into any other country, nor to stand in a favorable light in his own city; that he might retain only the dignity and name of the office; but, otherwise, that those who had been appointed by him presbyters, as he pretended, after being confirmed by a more solemn ordination, might be admitted into the communion of the Church on this condition: "to be sure," such were the words of the Synod, "they may hold the rank of the ecclesiastical dignity and ministry, but yet, they are to be inferior, in all respects, to all the presbyters in every province, and, to those clergymen who, turning back again, shall have been ordained by that most honorable man, our colleague, Alexander."

"The great Council computed the Book of Judith," says St. Jerome, "among the number of the sacred Scriptures, as we glean from history." This book was placed by the Hebrews among the Hagiographa; that is, those Scriptures which belonged neither to the penteteuch nor the prophetical books.