Methuselah lived 969 years. The meaning of his name is the man of weapon. Same year that Methuselah died the flood came and God saved only 8 people who became the seed that God used in the new world to grow and multiply.  |
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From were did we the coptic church bring the stole of the priest? The answer is the Old Testament Aaron the priest wore one in the Old Testament when he would go pray in the tabernacle. Now The stole is to be wore by all clergy every service and in every sacrament.
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The order in which the congregation would sit in the old times in the church and it was also the sam order in which they would take communion in. they would take communion from the two windows which were placed one on the right and the other on the left of the door of heaven the royal door.
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In the council of Constantinople St. Gregory bishop of Nyssa said the following quote " what God did not take He can't save".
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The sons of the roman kings they were princes and forsake all and went and became monks in Syria and after the death of their teacher abba Agabus they came and lived in wadi el natroun. They where the disciples of anba Macarius the great. They became the pride of the coptic monasticism and their father king Lawendeous. St. Arsani followed their steps and he used to be the teacher of the children of the kings of Rome
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