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of which Dr. Neale lays great stress, (a) i Cor. ii. 9, which appears in the Prayer of the Great ... more of which Dr. Neale lays great stress, (a) i Cor. ii. 9, which appears in the Prayer of the Great Oblation (see p. 42, XIV). In the Epistle the passage is manifestly a quotation, being abruptly introduced, and affording no antecedent for the initial relative, a. In the Liturgy the passage runs smoothly on, naturally following the antecedent Sfuprjuara, Therefore, says Dr. Neale, in' the Epistle it is manifestly quoted from the Liturgy. But there is another equally possible hypothesis, viz. that both Epistle and Liturgy quote from some third document. Quotations in the Liturgies always, as a matter of course, run on smoothly, interwoven into the con text ; there is, therefore, no particular weight in this consideration, while there are two fatal facts not noticed by Dr. Neale. These are, first, that the same passage verbatim occurs also in S. Mark's Liturgy (see p. 183, XI. f), but in a totally different connection, and with a different antecedent supplied to the relative; secondly, that the passage is wanting in the Syriac S. James' Liturgy in the Prayer of the Great Oblation (see p. 70, X. a), which otherwise corresponds exactly with the Greek formula. This makes it probable that the passage was added to the prayer not earlier than the Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451). (6) Or, again, if we look at Heb. x. 19, 20 (see p. 39, X. f), we shall see that in the Epistle there is a twofold application of the word /fOTaTreVacr/ia : but in the Liturgy a still further reference is imported, of which there is no trace in the Epistle, a reference to the veil at that moment being raised from off the Mysteries by the Priest. Is it not more natural to assume that the passage which has the simpler intention is the original, and that which has the more complex is the quota tion? It is obvious that such a theory as this, in itself antecedently improbable, requires very strong evidence if it is to command assent ; but there is not a single alleged quotation which, when closely scrutinized, yields it any real support. ' Raise the Trisagion ever and aye,' supplies an instance of this ever-recurring confusion. It is not the Trisagion proper that is meant, but the Tersanctus, or Triumphal Hymn. C * Introduction to the History of the Holy Eastern Church/ P-325-2 An account of this MS, with the text of these two Liturgies transcribed from it, and arranged in parallel columns, will be found in Bunsen's ' Anal. Ante-Nic.' pp. 197-236. 3 S. Basil died A.D. 379. For a fuller statement of this argument with authorities, see Palmer's ' Origines,' Introd. ii. p. 46, etc. 1 This document is to be found in Martene and Durand's 'Thesaurus Anecdotorum,' torn. v. p. 91 etc.; or in Martene, 'De Ecclesiae ritibus,' torn. i. p. 167 etc., reprinted in ' Excerpta Liturgica/ No. Ill (Messrs. Jas. Parker Co., Oxford). LIST OF BOOKS ON LITURGICAL SUBJECTS. THE student, who wishes to see the full extent of Liturgical Literature, cannot do better than study the Liturgical Catalogue of C.
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