The Enchiridion

Neale & Littledale: Greek Liturgies (translations)

J.M.Neale & R.F.Littledale: Greek Liturgies (translations); Title page(s) and 1st edition Preface (part), transcribed from copies in Dr Williams's Library, London.

(Title-page, 1st edn)

The Liturgies

of S.Mark, S.James, S.Clement, S.Chrysostom, S.Basil:

or

According to the use of the Churches of

Alexandria, Jerusalem, Constantinople,

and the Formula of the

Apostolic Constitutions

Ed. by the Rev.J.M.Neale, D.D., Warden of Sackville College

With Preface by Dr Littledale

(Title-page, 7th edn)

The Liturgies

of S.Mark, James, Clement, Chrysostom, and Basil,

and The Church of Malabar.

Tr., with introduction and appendices,

by The Rev.J.M.Neale, D.D.

sometime Warden of Sackville College, East Grinstead,

and The Rev.R.F.Littledale, Ll.D.,

sometime Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin.

[ n.d. 7th edn. London, Griffith Farran & Co., Ltd. ]

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[ Preface to 1st edition, 1859 (part) ]

. . . The Translations in the present volume are as follows:

S.Mark } The pro-anaphoral portion, new: the anaphoral,

S.James } slightly altered from my Introduction [ (to the Liturgies in Greek) ]

 

S.Clement The pre-anaphoral portion, new: the anaphoral, corrected from Dr Brett's Translation.

 

S.Chrysostom } Slightly altered from

The Prothesis   } my Introduction

 

The Malabar Liturgy - entirely new. 

I have endeavoured, most carefully, to abstain in my notes from all polemical remarks; but one observation I should not feel justified in omitting. For nearly twenty years these, and the other early Liturgies, have been my daily study: there are very few passages in them which I could not repeat by heart; and scarcely any important works on the subject which I have not read. I may therefore claim some little right to be heard with respect to them. And I say most unhesitatingly, that while I can conceive that some passages in them might be tortured into a Calvinistic sense, were sufficient ingenuity employed; no ingenuity can make any single clause even patient of the theory of equivalence, which the "Opinion" of a Scotch Bishop seems to endorse. If that theory be true, the Eucharistic teaching of every Eastern Liturgy is absolutely false.

I would conclude by praying that the doctrine of these Liturgies may spread more and more widely among us; and that this poor little effort of mine may be blessed to that end.

Sackville College, Michaelmas, 1859

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