Liturgies, eastern and western : being the texts, original or translated, of the principal liturgies of the church / edited with introductions and appendices by F.E. Brightman on the basis of the former work by C.E. Hammond. Vol. 1. Eastern liturgies.

  • Charles Edward Hammond
Date:
1896
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Credit: Liturgies, eastern and western : being the texts, original or translated, of the principal liturgies of the church / edited with introductions and appendices by F.E. Brightman on the basis of the former work by C.E. Hammond. Vol. 1. Eastern liturgies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    v. 16 § 4 : iii. 17, v. 7 § 18, vi. 15 § 2: v. 5 § 2, vi. 26 § 1 : v. 19 § 6, vi. 30 § 5 : vi. 6 § 2, 18 § 2: vi. 11 § 2, 27 § 5: vi. 14 § 3, 28 § 1. (4) A very copious use of Scripture whether in long quotations or in strings of passages or in series of scriptural examples : in the last case the names are characteristically qualified by an epithet or a descriptive title. Notice the readings of Deut. i. 17 5 in ii. 5 § 1, 13 § 3, 41 § 7 : of Lev. xix. 17 in ii. 53 § 4 : of Is. lxii. 11 (?) in ii. 14 § 8: and of Matt. v. 45 in ii. 14 § 4. (5) As to the theological statements it is enough to notice the insistence, in phrases which may be orthodox in them- selves but are suspicious in their combination and iteration, on the preeminence of the Father and the correlative subordination of the Son and the Holy Ghost 10 (of the Father o el? /cat /xovos aXijdLvds 9(os ii. 6 § 9, 56 § 1, v. 6 § 7, 16 § 3 : u Beds twv oAcvv ii. 14 § 9, v. 7 § 18, vi. 7 § I, 27 § 4 : 6 end Travrcuv (teas i. 8 § 1, iii. 17, vi. 26 § 1 : of the Son 6(bs /xoroyem;? iii. 17, v. 20 § 5 : debs A.070? ii. 24 § 2, v. 16 § 1, vi. 11 § 3 : while the use of 6eus absolutely of the Son is avoided [it is retained from the Didaskalia in ii. 24 § 5]: the subordination of the Son in 13 ii. 26 § 2, 30 § 2, v. 7 § 12, 20 § 6, and TrpajToroKos iraorjs ktIcreoos emphasized in ii. 61 § 4, vi. 11 § 1 : of the Holy Ghost ii. 26 § 3), and on the highpriesthood of the Son (ii. 25 § 5, v. 6 § 7, vi. 11 § 3) : the characteristic use of 0 -napaKXrjTos of the Holy Ghost (esp. iii. 17, vi. 11 § 1, 15 § 1, 27 § 2) and the emphasis on his ‘witness’ (iii. 17, v. 7 § 18, vi. 15 § 2): the denial of a human soul to our 20 Lord (vi. 26 § 1) : a polemic against second and third century heresies, gnostic (vi. 10 sq., 26), psilanthropic (vi. 10 sq., 26 § 1), and sabellian (vi. 26 § 1) : the constant association of creation and providence (ii. 36 § 1, vi. 4, 11 § 1, 14 § 3, 16 § 2, 23 § 1), the insistence on baptism into the death of our Lord (iii. 17, v. 7 § 18, vi. 15 § 1, 23 § 2), and on the sabbath in relation to creation 25 (ii. 36 § 1, vi. 23 § 1: cp. v. 15 § 1). 2. These characteristics are found also in bks. vii and viii and in the Apostolic Canons. The Constitutions are therefore a unity, and with the Canons are the work of a single compiler. It has commonly been held that bks. vii and viii are a separate work or 30 works, arbitrarily or accidentally attached to the earlier i-vi. See Diet. Christian antiqq. p. 123 : still maintained by Zahn Ignatius v. Antiochien Gotha 1873, pp. 144 sqq. The doxology at the end of vi, the use of i-vi in the arabic and the ethiopic Didaskaliae, and the limitation of S. Epiphanius’ supposed quotations to bks. i-vi, seemed to point to this conclusion. But on the other hand, the 35 doxology is derived from the groundwork, the Didaskalia ; bks. i-vi do not occur in greek apart from vii sq.; S. Epiphanius’ quotations are from the Didaskalia, not from A. C. (Funk pp. 86 sqq.); the pseudo Ignatius implies the exist- ence of the whole octateuch, -and the internal characteristics of bks. vii and viii point unmistakably to the same hand as that which interpolated the 40 Didaskalia ; while the residuum of apparent inconsistencies is scarcely sufficient to neutralize the signs of identity (Funk pp. 168-174). The internal characteristics are discussed by Funk pp. 116-131, 139-141, 161-179: but his proofs of identity might be supplemented. Applying the characteristics