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Excerpt from Recent Discoveries Illustrating Early Christian Life and Worship: Three Lectures Delivered in the Chapter House of St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh
But this anticipatory epiclesis is developed still more in a newly-discovered fragment of an Egyptian Anaphora, perhaps of the Sixth or seventh century. The prayer for the Holy Ghost is as full as the normal Eastern epiclesis after the Narrative of the Institution, and this has been quoted as a prece dent for an epiclesis before the Narrative without any epiclesis after it. But this deduction is not justifiable. The fragment ends almost immediately after the Narrative, and there is no reason to sup pose that an anamnesis and epiclesis did not follow, as they do follow in the other Egyptian Anaphoras.
There is no trace of such an anticipatory epiclesis in the Church Orders, and the evidence shows that the invocation in the newly-discovered fragment is a development - for we see it in the process of growing - and not the survival Of an antique feature.
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