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 1 12|        that only about seventy years after our Lord's death the
 2 12|    thing of the past for ~long years, and it is only in the beginning
 3 12|        at most more than three years. The statement of Cyril
 4 12|      begin in 414 A.D., three ~years before that of his predecessor.
 5 16|      repent, shall pass three ~years among the hearers; for seven
 6 16|   among the hearers; for seven years they shall be prostrators;
 7 16|      prostrators; and ~for two years they shall communicate with
 8 16|      be prostrators for twelve years.~ ~On the expression "without
 9 16|     they are ordered for three years to be hearers, or to stand ~
10 18|     passed the ~space of three years as hearers, be for ten years
11 18|   years as hearers, be for ten years prostrators. But in all ~
12 18|         excommunicated for ten years. But in every case the way
13 18|    were ordered to spend three years as Hearers, during ~which
14 18|     all means" go ~through ten years as Kneelers, before they
15 21|   after they have passed three years only as ~hearers, they shall
16 21|    shall have fallen for three years he shall be a ~hearer only,
17 25|      the first fifteen hundred years. All interest ~exacted upon
18 28|         by Tertullian at sixty years(De Vel. Virg. Cap. ix.),
19 28|       a deaconess under ~forty years of age, and then only after
20 30|       discipline."~ ~b. Twenty years later, Gelasius, Bishop
21 31|        penance fixed is twenty years, only godfather and ~godmother
22 32|       had been carried twenty ~years previously at Elvira, in
23 35|       the cycle of eighty-four years continued to be used at
24 35|        326--as well ~as in the years 330, 333, 340, 341, 343,
25 35|      Easter for the next fifty years. This compromise, after
26 35|        compromise, after a few years, ~was not observed. The
27 35|       different points.~ ~Some years afterwards, in 457, Victor
28 35|       the cycle of eighty-four years came to ~an end. In the
29 35|    basis the cycle of nineteen years. This cycle ~perfectly corresponded
30 35|     the ~'cycle of eighty-four years, a little improved by Sulpicius
31 35| accepted the cycle of nineteen years. It had ~before been introduced
32 35|   Great, the cycle of nineteen years ~triumphed over all opposition;