Ethiopic Sinodos

Ethiopic Sinodos — Horner 1904 English translation of the Statutes — sourcepage 211

l64 STATUTES OF THE APOSTLES washing of regeneration for the forgiveness of sin ; make them the temple of the Holy Spirit, through our Lord Christ, through whom to thee with him and with the Holy Spirit (be) glory and might now, etc. 5 The prayer of consecration for those who bring the bread and water or oil to be blessed in the holy forty (days), after the examination of those who are to be baptised. God, my Lord Jesus Christ, lover of man, who alone hast made oblation.^ And thou knowest and lo to them indeed who are able thou speakest the great- ness of the honour of the Father and of thy creation. Thou, the Mediator, the Chief Priest for every soul, and the healing for those who are suffering. Thou whose name is sanctified by the holy ones, may the power 15 which enlightens thy name lighten upon the oil and water and bread, and make them to become safety and healing and purification for those who offered in faith, for thy name is restoration to us, and redemption, revela- tion, and sanctification. And to thee be glory and to ao thy holy Father now, etc. And he who comes to baptism shall learn the com- mandment as he receives (baptism) : how seemly it is that he live carefully, as he to whom will be imparted the holy atonement of grace by eating. At early 25 morning the bread and water shall be blessed, and he shall be anointed with the oil, until (the time) when shall be imparted that holy grace of baptism. When therefore he will come to baptism, he who will baptise him shall take him, and having turned him then to the west, with ^ Reading the variant oibcde. A