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Early Liturgies
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Introductory Notice to the Early Liturgies.
[4222] Suicer says that a canon is a psalm or hymn (canticum) wont to be sung on certain days, ordinarily and as if by rule. He quotes Zonaras, who says that a canon is metrical and is composed of nine odes. See Sophocles, Glossary of Byzantine Greek, Introduction, § 43. The canon of the Nestorian Church is somewhat different. See Neale, General Introduction to the History of the Eastern Church, p. 979.
[4223] [Rev. v. 6. The Apocalypse saturates these liturgies.]
[4224] “The psalm, or verses of a psalm, sung after the Epistle, was always entitled gradual, from being chanted on the steps (gradus) of the pulpit. When sung by one person without interruption, it was called tractus; when chanted alternately by several singers, it was termed responsory.”—Palmer, Origines Liturgicæ, vol. ii. p. 46, note.
[4225] i.e., while the lesson from the Old Testament is read. [But the Malabar Liturgy and Dr. Badger’s translation insert before this, according to Hammond, the Sanctus Deus, Sanctus fortis, etc.]
[4226] i.e., while the lesson from the Apostolical Epistles is read.
[4227] Renaudot understands by the proclamation the reading aloud of the Gospel. [According to Hammond, the deacon’s bidding prayer, during which, in Dr. Badger’s translation the Offertory is said also.]
[4228] Bema.
[4229] The Malabar Liturgy fills up, “let him depart.”
[4230] [Here begins the Liturgy of the Faithful.]
[4231] [The Offertory.]
[4232] [Here the Edinburgh editors insert the title of this liturgy given on p. 561, supra, and add: “In the Syriac copy, 70, Biblioth. Reg., this title does not occur, the service going forward without interruption—Etheridge.” See Elucidation IV.]
[4233] [According to Badger.]
[4235] Intellectualibus. [This prayer not well rendered.]
[4236] i.e., Catholics. But the word Catholics is omitted in most mss.
[4237] Which is said also in the Liturgy of Nestorius.
[4238] In another ms. [Evidently corrupt and mediæval.]
[4239] [Here begins the Anaphora.]
[4240] [The Preface.]
[4241] Spiritualibus. [Note 3, p. 545, supra.]
[4242] [See Hammond, p. 274.]
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