About those who are entrusted with the preaching of the Gospel, when, whom and what they should teach...

Chapter 1. Those to whom the preaching of the Gospel has been entrusted, with supplication and prayer, must ordain irreproachable deacons and presbyters, who have earned the approval of their former life.

(Matthew 9:37-38): "Then He said to His disciples, 'The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest that He will send laborers into His harvest."

(Luke 6:13-16): "And when the day came, He called His disciples, and chose twelve of them, whom He also called Apostles: Simon, whom He called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James of Alpheus, and Simon called the Zealot, Judas of Jacob, and Judas Iscariot, who later became a traitor."

(Luke 10:1-2): "After these things the Lord chose the other seventy disciples, and sent them two and two before Him into every city and place whither He Himself wanted to go, and He said to them, 'The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest that He will send laborers into His harvest."

(Acts 1:1-2): "The first book I wrote to you, Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning to the day on which he ascended, having given commands by the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen."

(Acts 1:23-26): "And they appointed two: Joseph, who was called Barsabbas, who was called Justus, and Matthias; And they prayed and said, O Lord, Knower of the Hearts of all, show one of these two, whom Thou hast chosen to receive the lot of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas fell away to go to his own place. And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered among the eleven apostles."