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Introductory Notice to the Early Liturgies.
[4127] Services. [Otherwise, “who do good works in Thy holy churches.”]
[4128] [The Angelical Salutation is here an evident interpolation, marring the grand unities of the liturgy.]
[4129] [I place in a note what follows:]—
Then the Priest says aloud:—
Hail in the highest, our all-holy, pure, most blessed, glorious lady, the God-mother and ever-virgin Mary.
The Singers.
Verily it is becoming to bless Thee, the God-bearing, the ever-blessed, and all-blameless, and mother of our God, more honourable than the cherubim, and incomparably more glorious than the seraphim: thee, who didst bear with purity God the Word, thee the true God-mother, we magnify.
And again they sing:—
In thee, highly favoured, all creation rejoices, the host of angels, and the race of men; hallowed temple, and spiritual paradise, pride of virgins, of whom God was made flesh and our God, who was before eternity, became a little child: for He made Thy womb His throne, and Thy bowels more capacious than the heavens. In thee, O highly favoured one, all creation rejoices: glory unto thee.
[4130] [A prayer entirely corresponding with the primitive ideas. See vol. vi. p. 488, and elucidation, p. 541.]
[4131] [In all early liturgies always following the Lord’s Prayer, to accentuate the petition against the evil one. It hurls back his “fiery darts,” as it were; whence this name.]
[4132] [Duplicated, with other parts, in the Greek copies.]
[4133] [The taking-up of the gifts is here erroneously introduced in the Edinburgh edition.]
[4134] [The publican’s prayer, adapted to the Christian worship: ἰλάσθητί μοι, is the plea for mercy through propitiation. Luke xviii. 13.]
[4139] [Here the chalice is filled for participation.]
[4140] [Here the presbyter receives.]
[4141] Or patens.
[4142] [Here are difficulties explained by Drs. Neale and Littledale in their Translation, etc., p. 60.]
[4143] [The side-table or credence.]
[4144] [Here the laity are communicated.]
[4145] [Compare Neale’s Tetralogia Liturgica, p. 192.]
[4146] [Here are confusions; but see Neale and Littledale, p. 62, note 20.]
[4147] [Interpolated, but not Mariolatrous; the Theotoce is commemorated, not adored.]
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