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The Clementine Liturgy

Analecta Gorgiana

168 Series Editor George Kiraz

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T h e Clementine Liturgy

An tient Liturgies

C. E. Hammond

gorgias press 2009

Gorgias Press LLC, 180 Centennial Ave., Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA www.gorgiaspress.com Copyright © 2009 by Gorgias Press LLC Originally published in 1878 All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise without the prior written permission of Gorgias Press LLC.

ISBN 978-1-60724-183-6 ISSN 1935-6854 This book is an extract of C. E. Hammond, Antient Uturgies, London: Macmillan, 1878.

Printed in the United States of America

§ i. The Clementine Liturgy.

Represents the Liturgy of the third century.

i. Its agreement with Justin Martyr's description.

A THOROUGH discussion of this Liturgy, and of the questions that arise in connexion with it, would exceed the space at our d i s p o s a l I t is by far the most interesting Liturgical document that we possess, for the light it throws upon the history and growth of Liturgical development, and well repays any amount of study bestowed upon it. The conclusion which we would commend to our readers is that, taken together with the supplementary account in Bk. ii. of the Apostolical Constitutions (see below p. 23), it represents fairly the pre-Constantinian Liturgy of about the middle of the 3rd century. We have printed it below in the first Group, because in the order of its parts it agrees with the characteristics of that Group; and it has been commonly received as belonging to the early Church at Jerusalem. But there are strong reasons for believing it to represent a stage of liturgical growth that extended far beyond the limits of Palestine or Syria. Its agreement with the Liturgy described by Justin Martyr is very remarkable. This description is so valuable in itself, as the earliest detailed account of the Eucharistic service, of the date of which we are certain, that we give it in full. It is to be found in his 1

Probst,' Liturgie der drei ersten christlichen Jahrhunderte' (Tübingen, 1870), and Bickell, 'Messe und Pascha' (Mainz, 1872), contain very valuable investigations upon this Liturgy.

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