The ancient use of liturgical colours

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PAKKEK & SON, En)^^ J>*- ^^4**^^" ^nte^fc^^^ tn'N nnRoffe ^^^ZS?r^ 13AUG 1956 — 8 €anUnH. :England, "the island of Saints" —TheItttrotJUCtlon. of the ancient Church ofbeauty and costliness England vestments:—The irregularity of the ex- ; :isting Church of England use —The modern Ro- — ": : Generalman sequence "The Durham Book —j outline of the work i—pp. CHAPTER I. :The divine commandW^^t ancient JHosaic tlSe. vestments : Josephus uponTable of the Levitical — :the linen vestment and girdle —St. Jerome :the number of the vestments—Walafrid Strabo, : : Patriarch Symeon,ditto —Honorius, ditto —The . :—The shape of vestments differed in differ- : of Levitical coloursent ages —The number the : —The symbolism of number five:—Its influence : . upon the system of the ancient Church —The use in the time of Solomon 9—pp. 17 CHAPTER II. Testimony ofCi)e mt in ti^e first centwrg. Josephus : —The blending of the Old Dispensation into the : :New —Crake upon early ritual worship —Litur- gical arrangements of plan in the Early Christian :Church —Liturgical uses of the :Church —The vision of the Apocalypse :—The :Bishop of Lincoln's notes thereon Saint— John :robed like the Priests of old—The ancient introit for St. Day 18John's 31pp. — CHAPTER III. use tf)e seconti The persecutionsCfie in century. :simplicitynecessitated a of ritual —The modern b ——— CONTENTS.

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 5
• Langue: English
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nnRoffe ^^^ZS?r^13AUG 1956— 8
€anUnH.
:England, "the island of Saints" —TheItttrotJUCtlon.
of the ancient Church ofbeauty and costliness
England vestments:—The irregularity of the ex-
;
:isting Church of England use —The modern Ro-
— ": : Generalman sequence "The Durham Book —j
outline of the work i—pp.
CHAPTER I.
:The divine commandW^^t ancient JHosaic tlSe.
vestments : Josephus uponTable of the Levitical —
:the linen vestment and girdle —St. Jerome
:the number of the vestments—Walafrid Strabo,
: : Patriarch Symeon,ditto —Honorius, ditto —The
. :—The shape of vestments differed in differ-
: of Levitical coloursent ages —The number the :
—The symbolism of number five:—Its influence
:
. upon the system of the ancient Church —The use
in the time of Solomon 9—pp. 17
CHAPTER II.
Testimony ofCi)e mt in ti^e first centwrg. Josephus :
—The blending of the Old Dispensation into the
: :New —Crake upon early ritual worship —Litur-
gical arrangements of plan in the Early Christian
:Church —Liturgical uses of the
:Church —The vision of the Apocalypse :—The
:Bishop of Lincoln's notes thereon Saint— John
:robed like the Priests of old—The ancient introit
for St. Day 18John's 31pp. —
CHAPTER III.
use tf)e seconti The persecutionsCfie in century.
:simplicitynecessitated a of ritual —The modern
b———
CONTENTS.VI
" "theory refuted, that white was the colour of the
:in the Early Christian Church —Thevestments
Clement ofAlexandria, andalleged testimony of St.
: :TertuUian—What they allude to —The modern
refuted, that the ecclesiastical dress wastheory
: Christian art is tosimilar to the civil dress — be
:contradistinguished from pagan art—The ecclesi-
dress, in like degree, is to be contradistin-astical
: upon the toga andguished from the civil —Rock
: :pall —Usage of the Jewish Christians at Pella
32 42Testimony of Polycrates pp. —
CHAPTER IV.
Ci)e use in t^e t^ita Centurg. The usage during the
:great persecutions—Fleury upon the reserve re-
specting :—The primitive Liturgiesthe Mysteries :
:—Rubric in the divine Liturgy of St. Clement
The mural paintings in the Catacombs do not de-
Eucharistic vestmentspict 43pp. —47
CHAPTER V.
\XM in li^e fourtf) centurg. Christianity favouredCte
:by the State —Developments in the externals of
:Religion —Testimony Eusebius of :of Caesarea
:Testimony of Theodoret —The same vesture was
. often used for Baptism as for Holy Communion
in the Early Christian : TestimonyChurch — of St.
Jerome pp. 48—53
CHAPTER VI.
in t^eE^t use HU^ centurg. The heresiarch Pela-
gius St. ::— Jerome adv. Pelagius —The use of the
purple altar-cloth in the ancient British Church :
—Testimony of Gildas .-—The traditional use of
white vestments at Eastertide:—Bequest of Saint
:Remigius —Easter the only season which had its
distinctive colour:—Vestments were worn by St
Leo pp. 54—59