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REPLY1850

The Word "after" in the Rubric

By E. C. H.

In the edition of the *Latin Common Prayer*, published in 12mo., Londini, 1574, which must be a very early edition (probably the fourth or fifth), there is a great verbal difference in the conclusion of the exhortation from the English original. It stands thus: "Quapropter omnes vos qui præsentes hic adestis, per Dei nomen obtestor, ut interni sensus vestri, cum meo conjuncti pariter, ad cælestis clementiæ thronum subvolent, ut in hunc, qui sequitur, sermonem, succedatur." Then follows the rubric, "Generalis confessio, ab universa congregatione dicenda, genibus flexis." It would appear from th…

Topics: Latin Common Prayer, Religious Texts, Translation Differences, Rubrics

Locations: Londini, England