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A collection in two books of church regulations claiming to be from the mouth
of Christ and written down by Clement of Rome. The
work (
CPG
1743) was originally written in Greek (of
this only parts survive); Cappadocia, Syria, and Palestine (thus Kohlbacher)
have all been suggested as its place of origin; Rahmani dated it to the 2nd
cent. but more recently the late 4th (White) and the late 5th cent.
(Kohlbacher) have both been suggested. The translation into Syriac was made
in 686/7 by ‘the poor Yaʿqub’ who is usually identified as