By Vie Rev. J. Baron, L.D., F.S.A. 



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Prayer, Gloria in Excelsis, and Nicene Creed, all in Greek, but 

 transliterated into the Frank character of that date. 



He also gives, from a MS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, 

 extracts from the Septuagint of passages from Genesis and Isaiah 

 in Greek, but transliterated into the Anglosaxon character. By- 

 reference to Wanley's catalogue we find that there is a mine of such 

 documents yet unexplored. Mr. Cockayne, in his Saxon Leechdoms, 

 edited for the Master of the Rolls, shows that the Anglosaxons were 

 acquainted with Greek medical treatises. 



So much for the learned error. 



There is also a popular error very prevalent, which interferes with 

 the due appreciation of the wisdom of the Stockton arrangement 

 for missionary stations in early times. It seems to be supposed that 

 a great part of the worship of early times consisted in gazing at 

 the officiating priest and his assistants while performing the liturgy, 

 and that all, whether faithful, catechumens, penitents, or unbelievers, 

 were invited to gaze. This is contrary to the whole spirit and 

 practice, both of East and West, in early ages. That spirit is set 

 forth with much learning in Tract 90 of the Oxford Tracts, " On 

 Reserve in Communicating Religious Knowledge." I have, in this 

 paper, nothing to do with the writer's deductions, applications, or 

 religious reflexions, but with the question of an intentional reserve, 

 except to the initiated, and prepared, which is the key to many of 

 the arrangements of early Church architecture, in the East and West. 

 This is recognised in the Eastern liturgy by the dismissal of the 

 catechumens, and the ejaculation, Ta ayta tols ayLots. 1 It is 

 pointedly expressed by a mediaeval poet : — 



" Infra Cancellum Laicos compelle morari, 

 Ne videant vinum cum sacro Pane sacrari." 



Poeta MS. aevi injimi : wpud Du Cange, 

 Gloss. Lat., art Cancellus. 



Those who are interested by parallels will find them in the Jewish 

 religion, and in the Eleusinian and other heathen mysteries diffusely 

 treated by Bishop Warburton. 2 



1 'Evxohoyiov, pp. 55, 09 ; Venice, 18G2. 

 2 Divine Legation. 



