Chapter 21

1Said Kefa : It is not fitting for women to raise their voice while they stand in the church, but rather to prostrate themselves with face toward the earth. Said Ya'ekob : How can they order for women a ministry of the Mystery, but only this ministry that they should help the needy ? Said Filepos : O brethren, concerning the charitable action which a man does, (in doing it) he gathers for himself a good treasure in the kingdom of the heavens ; for the good deed is reckoned to him by God, who continues for evermore. Said Petros : O brethren, ye know that we indeed are not set S over anyone with compulsion, but we give command from God. We beseech you to hear and keep the commandments, and add not to them nor diminish from them, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be honour and praise for ever and ever. Amen.