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| Chapter IV. How throughout the whole of Egypt and the Thebaid the number of Psalms is fixed at twelve.
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Chapter IV.
How throughout the whole of Egypt and the Thebaid the
number of Psalms is fixed at twelve.
So, as we said,
throughout the whole of Egypt and the Thebaid the number of Psalms is
fixed at twelve both at Vespers and in the office of Nocturns,681
| 681 The rule of
Cæsarius also prescribes twelve Psalms on every Sabbath,
Lord’s day, and festival (c. 25); so also, according to the
Benedictine rule, there are twelve Psalms at mattins, besides the fixed
ones, iii. and xcv. (see c. 9 and 10), as there are still in the Roman
Breviary on ordinary week-days. | in such a way that at the close two
lessons follow, one from the Old and the other from the New
Testament.682
| 682 The custom of
having two lessons only appears to have been peculiar to Egypt.
Most of the early Western rules give three, e.g., those of
Cæsarius and Benedict, while in the Eastern daily offices there
are no lections from Holy Scripture. | And this
arrangement, fixed ever so long ago, has continued unbroken to the
present day throughout so many ages, in all the monasteries of those
districts, because it is said that it was no appointment of man’s
invention, but was brought down from heaven to the fathers by the
ministry of an angel.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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