obedient to the commands of His Mother? Te Deum. p. 15. If the Octave of the Epiphany falls on Sunday, the Office of the Octave is said, to the exclusion of that of the Sunday. OCTAVE OF THE EPIPHANY. Double. Inv., Hymn, and Psalms, as through the Octave: the rest as on the day of the Epiphany, except the Lessons. In the first Nocturn are read the Lessons from Cor. i., for the day, according to the rubric, p. lxvi. SECOND Nocturn. A Sermon of S. Gregory Nazianzen. Lesson IV. Oration on the holy light. I CANNOT restrain the pleasure of my gladness, but I am in heart elated, and moved; and, forgetful of my own insignificance, I seek, I delight to undertake the office of the great John, yea, rather his service: and albeit I may not be the forerunner, nevertheless, I come from the wilderness. CHRIST, therefore, is illuminated, yea, rather illuminateth us by His bright shining: CHRIST is baptized, let us go down together with Him, that with Him we may together in like manner come up. Ry. Arise, shine. p. liv. Lesson V. JOHN baptizeth, and JESUS draweth near, hallowing even him also who baptizeth, but chiefly that he may bury the old Adam in the waters, and before all, that hereby the waters of Jordan might be hallowed: so that as He was flesh and spirit, sanctification might be regularly transmitted by the Spirit and the water to them who should after be baptized. The Baptist receiveth Him not, JESUS persisteth. I, saith the Baptist, have need to be baptized of Thee. The lamp speaketh to the sun, the voice talketh to the Word. Ry. All they. p. liv. Lesson VI. JESUS goeth up out of the water, thus, in a manner bringing forth and raising the drowned world: and He saw the heaven, not divided, but opened, which the first Adam had closed of old, both against himself and us; even as Paradise was kept shut by the fiery sword. The HOLY GHOST bare witness: for like seeketh unto like. Witness is sent from heaven, whence of a truth He had come unto Whom witness was borne. Ry. The wise men. p. liv. THIRD NOCTURN. Lesson of the Holy Gospel according to S. John. Lesson VII. Chap. i. AT that time: John seeth JESUS coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of GOD, Which taketh away the sins of the world. And that which follows. A Homily of S. Augustine the Bishop. Tract 6 on S. John. Before the LORD came to be baptized of John in Jordan, John had recognised Him, as we know by his words, I have need to be baptized of Thee, and comest Thou to me? But, lo, he knew Him to be the LORD; he knew Him to be the Son of God. And how do we prove that he knew it was He Who should baptize with the HOLY GHOST? Before He came to the river, when many hastened to John to be baptized, he said to them, I indeed mightier than I cometh, the latchet of baptize you with water, but One Whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose; He shall baptize you with the HOLY GHOST and with fire. So that he already knew this. Ry. The star. p. lv. Lesson VIII. THAT John then be not found a liar (which GOD forbid that we should imagine), we ask, what did he learn from the Dove, but that there was a certain peculiar power in CHRIST JESUS, called. to be saints, with all of such a nature, that, although many | the church of GOD which is at Corinth, ministers, righteous and unrighteous, to them that are sanctified in CHRIST should baptize for Him, the sanctity of baptism was not to be attributed to any but Him on Whom the Dove descended; of Whom it was said, The same is He Which baptizes with the HOLY GHOST. If Peter baptizes, this Same baptizes; if Judas baptizes, this Same baptizes. For if baptism sanctified according to the merit of the baptized, since men's merits different, baptisms would be different, and each person baptized would be thought to receive a better baptism according to the merit of him that baptized him. Ry. And when the wise men. p. lvi. Lesson IX. UNDERSTAND, brethren: the very Saints who belong to the Dove, who belong to the lot of that city of Jerusalem, those holy ones in the Church, of whom the Apostle says, The LORD knoweth them that are His these have received different degrees of grace; they are not all equal in merit. For some are more holy than others; some are better than others. If therefore one person is baptized by one, who is, let us suppose, a righteous and holy man, and another by one of inferior merit before God; of lower degree, a man of less self-restraints of a lower spiritual life, and yet the same gift is received by both: why is this but because it is He who baptizes both? Te Deum. p. 15. FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY, Within the Octave. In the 1st Nocturn is read the 1st Ep. to the Corinthians, according to the Rubric. p. lxvi. Here beginneth the 1st Epistle of S. Lesson I. Chap. i. PAUL, called to be an apostle of Lesson II. I THANK my GoD always on your who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our LORD JESUS CHRIST. GOD is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his SON JESUS CHRIST our LORD. Ry. In the form of a dove. p. liii. Lesson III. Now I beseech you, brethren, by CHRIST, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and been declared unto me of you, my in the same judgment. For it hath brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are conten the name of our LORD JESUS tions among you. Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of CHRIST. IS CHRIST divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? Ry. The kings. p. liii. In the 2nd and 3rd Nocturns are read the Lessons of the Sunday in the Octave. But if the day of the Octave falls on Sunday, the Office of the Octave is said. MONDAY. Of the 1st. Ep. to the Corinthians. Lesson I. Chap. ii. ND I, brethren, when I came to A you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of GOD. For I determined not to know anything among you, save JESUS CHRIST, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of GOD. Of the 1st Ep. to the Corinthians. IT is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, in the name of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, when ye are gathered OWBEIT we speak wisdom among together, and my spirit, with the power them that are perfect: yet not of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, to the wisdom of this world, nor of the deliver such an one unto Satan for princes of this world, that come to the destruction of the flesh, that the nought but we speak the wisdom of spirit may be saved in the day of the GOD in a mystery, even the hidden LORD JESUS. wisdom, which GOD ordained before the world unto our glory: which HO Lesson II. none of the princes of this world knew for had they known it, they would not have crucified the LORD of glory. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. Lesson III. Lesson II. YOUR glorying is not good. Know ye For not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. even CHRIST our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. BU UT GOD hath revealed them unto Lesson III. WROTE unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. WEDNESDAY. Of the 1st Ep. to the Corinthians. Lesson I. Chap. vi. DARE any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? If then ye have judgment of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. Lesson II. NOW therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of GOD? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the LORD JESUS, and by the SPIRIT of our God. Lesson III. ALL things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but GoD shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the LORD, and the LORD for the body. And God hath both raised up the LORD, and will also raise up us by his own power. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of CHRIST? shall I then take the members of CHRIST, and make them the members of an harlot? GOD forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the LORD is one spirit. THURSDAY. Of the 1st Ep. to the Corinthians. NOW concerning the things whereof benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Lesson II. EFRAUD ye not one the other, DE except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment. For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of GOD, one after this manner, and another after that. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. Lesson III. AND unto the married I command, yet not I, but the LORD, Let not the wife depart from her husband: but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. But to the rest speak I, not the LORD: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean: but now are they holy. FRIDAY. Of the 1st Ep. to the Corinthians. Lesson I. Chap. xiii. THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, SO that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Lesson II. Lesson I. Chap. xvi. NOW concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me. Lesson II. Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia. And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever go. For I will not see you now by with you, if the LORD permit. But I the way; but I trust to tarry a while will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost. opened unto me, and there are many For a great door and effectual is adversaries. CHARITY suffereth long, and is I Lesson III. NOW if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the LORD, as I also do. Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren. As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren: but his will was |