Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — First Series Vol. 01 — [1185] "Neque enim loca sunt quibus mergimur et emergimus."
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series Vol. 1
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[1186] Watts remarks here: "This sentence was generally in the Church service and communion. Nor is there scarce any one old liturgy but hath it, Sursum corda, Habemus ad Dominum." Palmer, speaking of the Lord's Supper, says, in his Origines Liturgicæ., iv. 14, that "Cyprian, in the third century, attested the use of the form, Lift up your hearts,' and its response, in the liturgy of Africa (Cyprian, De Orat. Dom. p. 152, Opera, ed. Fell). Augustin, at the beginning of the fifth century, speaks of these words as being used in all churches" (Aug. De Vera Relig. iii. ). We find from the …
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