cious body; whereof we celebrate this representation as himself appointed us, "To show forth his death." For through him glory is to be given to thee for ever. Amen. Let no one eat of these things that is not initiated, but those only who have been baptized into the death of the Lord. But if any one that is not initiated conceal himself and partake of the same, "he eats eternal damnation." Because, being not of the faith of Christ, he has partaken of such things as it is not lawful for him to partake of, to his own punishment. But if any one is a partaker through ignorance, instruct him quickly and initiate him, that he may not go out and despise you.

CHAP. XXVI. After the participation give thanks in this manner, We thank thee, O God and Father of Jesus our Saviour, for thy holy name which thou hast made to inhabit among us, and that knowledge, faith, love, and immortality which thou hast given us through thy Son Jesus. Thou, O Almighty Lord, the God of the universe, hast created the world, and the things that are therein by him; and hast planted a law in our souls, and beforehand didst prepare things for the convenience of men. O God of our holy and blameless fathers, Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, thy faithful servants; thou, O God, who art powerful, faithful, and true, and without deceit in thy promises; who didst send upon earth Jesus thy Christ to converse with men as a man, when he was God the Word and Man, to take away error by the roots; do thou even now, through him, be mindful of this thy holy Church, which thou hast purchased with the precious blood of thy Christ, and deliver it from all evil, and perfect it in thy love and thy truth, and gather us altogether into thy kingdom which thou hast prepared. Let this thy kingdom come.' "Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord." God the Lord who was manifested to us in the flesh. If any one be holy let him draw ngar, but if any one be not such let him become such by repentance. Permit also to your presbyters to give thanks.

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CHAP. XXVII. Concerning the ointment, give thanks in this manner: We give thee thanks, O God, the Creator of the whole world, both for the fragrancy of the ointment and for the immortality which thou hast made known to us by thy Son Jesus; for thine is the glory, and the power, for ever. Amen. Whosoever comes to you and gives thanks in this manner receive him as a disciple of Christ. But if he preach another doctrine different from that which Christ by us has delivered to you, such an one you must not permit to give thanks; for such an one rather affronts God than glorifies him.

CHAP. XXVIII. But whosoever comes to you let him be first examined, and then received; for ye have understanding and are able to know the right hand from the left, and to distinguish false teachers from true teachers. But when a teacher comes to you supply him with what he wants with all readiness. And even when a false teacher comes you shall give him for his necessity, but shall not receive his error; nor, indeed, may ye pray together with him, lest ye be polluted as well as he. Every true prophet or teacher

that comes to you is "worthy of his maintenance," as being a "labourer" in the Word of righteousness."

CHAP. XXIX. All the first-fruits of the wine-press, the threshingfloor, the oxen, and the sheep shalt thou give to the priests, that thy storehouses, and garners, and the products of thy land may be blessed, and thou mayest be strengthened with corn, and wine, and oil, and the herds of thy cattle, and flocks of thy sheep may be increased. Thou shalt give the tenth of thy increase to the orphan, and to the widow, and to the poor, and to the stranger. All the first-fruits of thy hot bread, of thy barrels of wine, or oil, or honey, or nuts, or grapes; all the first fruits of other things shalt thou give to the priests, but those of silver, and of garments, and of all sorts of possessions, to the orphan and to the widow.

CHAP. XXX. On the day of the resurrection of the Lord, that is the Lord's day, assemble yourselves together without fail, giving thanks to God, and praising him for those mercies God has bestowed upon you through Christ; and has delivered you from ignorance, error, and bondage, that your sacrifice may be unspotted and acceptable to God, who has said concerning his universal Church, "In every place shall incense and a pure sacrifice be offered unto me, for I am a great King, saith the Lord Almighty; and my name is wonderful among the heathen."

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CHAP. XXXI. Do you first ordain bishops worthy of the Lord, and presbyters and deacons pious men, righteous, meek, free from the love of money, lovers of truth, approved, holy, not accepters of persons who are able to teach the Word of piety, and "rightly dividing" the doctrines of the Lord. And do ye honour such as your fathers, as your lords, as your benefactors, as the causes of your wellbeing. Reprove ye one another, not in anger, but in mildness; with kindness and peace. Observe all things that are commanded you by the Lord. Be watchful for your life; "let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and be ye like unto men who wait for their Lord, when he will come at even, or in the morning, or at cock-crowing, or at midnight, for at what hour they think not the Lord will come; and if they open to him, blessed are those servants, because they were found watching; for he will gird himself and will make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them." Watch therefore, and pray that ye do not sleep unto death; for your former good deeds will not profit you if at the last part of your life you go astray from the true faith.

CHAP. XXXII. For in the last days false prophets shall be multiplied, and such as corrupt the word; and the sheep shall be changed into wolves, and love into hatred; for through the abounding of iniquity the love of many shall wax cold. For men shall hate, and persecute, and betray one another. And then shall appear the deceiver of the world, the enemy of the truth, the prince of lies, whom the Lord Jesus "shall destroy with the spirit of his mouth; who takes away the wicked with his lips; and many shall be offended at him. But they that endure to the end the same shall be saved. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of

Man in heaven." And afterwards shall be the voice of a trumpet by the Arch-angel; and in that interval shall be the revival of those that were sleep; and then shall the Lord come, and all his saints with him, with a great concussion, above the clouds, and with the angels of his power, in the throne of his kingdom, to condemn (the devil) the deceiver of the world, and to render to every one according to his deeds. Then shall the wicked go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous shall go into life eternal," to inherit those things "which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, such things as God hath prepared for them that love him." And they shall rejoice in the kingdom of God, which is in Christ Jesus. Since we are vouchsafed such great blessings from him, let us become his supplicants, and call upon him by continual prayer, and say,

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CHAP. XXXIII. Our Eternal Saviour, the King of Gods, who alone art almighty, and the Lord, the God of all beings, and the God of our holy and blameless fathers, and of those before us; the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob; who art merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy; to whom every heart is naked, and by whom every heart is seen, and to whom every secret thought is revealed; to thee do the souls of the righteous cry aloud, upon thee do the hopes of the godly trust; thou Father of the blameless, thou hearer of the supplication of those that call upon thee with uprightness, and who knowest the supplications that are not uttered; for thy providence reaches as far as the inmost parts of mankind, and by thy knowledge thou searchest the thoughts of every one, and in every region of the whole earth the incense of prayer and supplication is sent up to thee. O thou who hast appointed this present world as a place of combat to righteousness, and hast opened to all the gate of mercy, and hast demonstrated to every man by implanted knowledge, and natural judgment, and the admonitions of the law, how the possession of riches is not everlasting, the ornament of beauty is not perpetual, our strength and force are easily dissolved, and that all is vapour and vanity; and that only the good conscience of faith unfeigned passes through the midst of the heavens, and returning with truth, takes hold of the right hand of the joy which is to come: and withal before the promise of the restoration of all things is accomplished, the soul itself exults in hope, and is joyful. For from that truth which was in our forefather Abraham, when he changed his way thou didst guide him by a vision, and didst teach him what kind of state this world is; and knowledge went before his faith, and faith was the consequence of his knowledge; and the covenant did follow after his faith for thou saidst, "I will make thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the sea-shore." Moreover, when thou hadst given him Isaac, and knewest him to be like him in his conversation, thou wast then called his God, saying, "I will be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee." And when our father Jacob was sent into Mesopotamia, thou shewedst him Christ, and by him spakest, saying, "Behold I am with thee, and I will increase thee, and multiply thee exceedingly." And so spakest

thou to Moses, thy faithful and holy servant, at the vision of the bush, "I am he that is; this is my name for ever, and my memorial for generations of generations.' O thou great Protector of the posterity of Abraham, thou art blessed for ever.

CHAP. XXXIV. Thou art blessed, O Lord, the King of ages, who by Christ has made the whole world, and by him in the beginning didst reduce into order the disordered parts. Who dividedst the waters from the waters by a firmament, and didst put into them a spirit of life; who didst fix the earth, and stretch out the heaven, and didst dispose every creature by an accurate constitution; for by thy power, O Lord, the world is beautified, the heaven is fixed as an arch over us, and is rendered illustrious with stars for our comfort in the darkness; the light also and the sun were begotten for days, and the production of fruit; and the moon for the change of seasons, by its increase and diminutions; and one was called night, and the other day. And the firmament was exhibited in the midst of the abyss, and thou commandest the waters to be gathered together, and the dry land to appear. But as for the sea itself, who can possibly describe it? which comes with fury from the ocean, yet runs back again, being stopped by the sand at thy command; for thou hast said, "Thereby shall her waves be broken." Thou hast also made it capable of supporting little and great creatures, and made it navigable for ships. Then did the earth become green, and was planted with all sorts of flowers, and the variety of several trees; and the shining luminaries, the nourishers of those plants, preserve their unchangeable course, and in nothing depart from thy command. But where thou biddest them, there do they rise and set, for signs of the seasons, and of the years, making a constant return of the work of men. Afterwards the kinds of the several animals were created, those belonging to the land, to the water, to the air, and both to air and water; and the artificial wisdom of thy providence does still impart to every one a suitable providence. For as he was not unable to produce different kinds, so neither has he disdained to exercise a different providence towards every one. And at the conclusion of the creation thou gavest direction to thy wisdom, and formedst a reasonable creature, as the citizen of the world, saying, "Let us make man after our image, and after our likeness;" and hast exhibited him as the ornament of the world, and formed him a body out of the four elements, those primary bodies, but hadst prepared a soul out of nothing, and bestowedst upon him his five senses, and didst set over his sensations a mind, as the conductor of the soul. And, besides all these things, O Lord God, who can worthily declare the motion of the rainy clouds, the shining of the lightning, the noise of the thunder, in order to the supply of proper food, and the most agreeable temperature of the air. But when man was disobedient, thou didst deprive him of the life which should have been his reward; yet didst thou not destroy him for ever, but laidst him to sleep for a time, and thou didst by oath call him to a resurrection, and loosedst the bond of death; O thou reviver of the dead, through Jesus Christ, who is our hope.

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CHAP. XXXV. Great art thou, O Lord Almighty, and great is thy power, and of thy understanding there is no number. Our Creator and Saviour, rich in benefits, long-suffering, and the bestower of mercy, who dost not take away thy salvation from thy creatures; for thou art good by nature, and sparest sinners, and invitest them to repentance; for admonition is the effect of thy bowels of compassion; for how should we abide if we were required to come to judgment immediately, when after so much long-suffering, we hardly get clear of our miserable condition? The heavens declare thy dominion, and the earth shakes with earthquakes, and hanging upon nothing, declares thy unshaken stedfastness. The sea raging with waves, and feeding a flock of ten thousand creatures, is bounded with sand, as standing in awe at thy command; and compels all men to cry out, How great are thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy creation." And the bright host of angels, and the intellectual spirits say to Palmoni, "There is but one holy being :" and the holy seraphim, together with the six-winged cherubim, who sing to thee their triumphal song, cry out with never-ceasing voices, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts; heaven and earth are full of thy glory;" and the other multitudes of the orders, angels, archangels, thrones, dominions, principalities, authorities, and powers, cry aloud, and say, "Blessed be the glory of the Lord out of his place." But Israel, thy church on earth, taken out of the Gentiles, emulating the heavenly powers, night and day with a full heart and a willing soul, sings, "The chariot of God is ten thousand fold, thousands of the prosperous: the Lord is among them in Sinai, in the holy place." The heaven knows him who fixed it as a cube of stone, in the form of an arch, upon nothing; who united the land and water to one another, and scattered the vital air all abroad, and conjoined fire therewith for warmth, and comfort against darkness. The choir of stars strikes us with admiration, declaring him that numbers them, and showing him that names them; the animals declare him that puts life unto them; the trees show him that makes them grow; all which creatures being made by thy word, show forth the greatness of thy power. Wherefore every man ought to send up an hymn from his very soul to thee, through Christ, in the name of all the rest, since he has power over them all by thy appointment. For thou art kind in thy benefits, and beneficent in thy bowels of compassion; who alone art almighty;' for when thou willest, to be able is present with thee; for thy eternal power both quenches flame, and stops the mouths of lions, and tames whales, and raises up the sick, and overrules the power of all things, and overturns the host of enemies, and casts down a people numbered in their arrogance. Thou art he who art in heaven, he who art on earth, he who art in the sea, he who art in finite things, thyself unconfined by anything. For of thy majesty there is no boundary; for it is not ours, O Lord, but the oracle of thy servant, who said, "And thou shalt know in thine heart that the Lord thy God he is God, in heaven above, and on earth beneath, and there is none other besides thee:" For there is no God besides thee

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