The book The Liturgy And Ritual of the Ante Nicene Church was written by author Warren, F. E. (Frederick Edward), 1842-1930 Here you can read free online of The Liturgy And Ritual of the Ante Nicene Church book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Liturgy And Ritual of the Ante Nicene Church a good or bad book?
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3 Rationale LHvinorum Offi-dorum, lib. Iii. Cap. I, 2. 4 Liber Pontificalis Gemmeticensis^ MS. 362 in the public library at Rouen, as quoted by Martene, De Antiq. Ecdes. Ritibus, lib. Ii. Cap. X. Ordo. Iii. (ed. 1788), p. 252. 5 Ep. Ii. ; P. L. , torn. Ixxii. Col. 97, IV. ] JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN RITUALS. 241 Bishop Young, writing in the present day, says ' If any one will compare the engravings of the vestments of the Jewish high priest, priest, and levite, as given by Calmet, with those now in ...use by the bishops, priests, and deacons of the Oriental Church, he will be struck with the resemblance between them, and the presumptive proof which the comparison affords that the latter were derived from the former. ' l But can this theory as to the origin of vestments be true ? We think not ; because considering the state of alienation and antipathy, which existed between Jews and Christians during the early and middle ages, it is an unlikely, though not an impos- sible, supposition that the latter should have directly borrowed their ministerial dress from the former ; and there is a simpler theory of the origin of vest- ments, which has philological support, viz.
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