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fay, "That it may be made thy holy blood:" and in their 

 prayer they fay, " Change this bread that it may be made 

 thy body ;" and again, " May the Holy Ghoft mine upon 

 this bread, that it may be made the body of Chrift our God, 

 and that this cup may be changed and become the blood, 

 not the fymbol, of the blood of Chrift our God." With all 

 refpea to Mr Ludolf's opinion, I mud think that, though 

 the benediction prayed upon the patine, fpoon, and chalice, is 

 but an aukward expreffion, yet, if I underftand the language, 

 " convene" and " immutetur" are literal tranflations of the 

 Ethiopic, and feem to pray for a tranfubftantiation as direct- 

 ly as words will admit, whether they believe in it or not; 

 nor, as far as I know, can any ftronger or more expreffive be 

 found to fubftitute in their place. 



I shall finilh this fubjed (which is not of my province, 

 and which I have mentioned, becaufe I know it is a matter 

 which fome of my readers defire information upon) by an 

 anecdote that happened a few months before my coming 

 into Abyflinia, as it was accidentally told me by the prieft 

 of Adowa the very day of the Epiphany, and which Janni 

 vouched to be true, and to have feen. 



The Sunday before Ras Michael's departure for Gondar 

 from Adowa, he went to church in great pomp, and there 

 received the facrament. There happened to be fuch a crowd 

 to fee him, that the wine, part of the confecrated elements, 

 was thrown down and fpilt upon the Heps whereon the 

 communicants Hood at receiving. Some ftraw or hay was 

 inftantly gathered and fprinkled upon it to cover it, and the 

 communicants continued the fervice till the end, treading 

 that grafs under foot. 



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