²⁸⁵ Rom. xi. 20.

²⁸⁶ S. Matt. xxiv. 44.

²⁸⁷ Acts i. 7.

²⁸⁸ 1 Thess. v. 1.

²⁸⁹ Acts i. 7.

²⁹⁰ S. Mark xiii. 32.

²⁹¹ Gen. xviii. 21.

²⁹² Gen. xi. 5.

²⁹³ Ps. liii. 2.

²⁹⁴ S. Luke xx. 13.

²⁹⁵ S. Matt. xxi. 37.

²⁹⁶ S. Mark xii. 6.

²⁹⁷ S. Matt. xxvii. 29 ff.

²⁹⁸ Tit. i. 2.

²⁹⁹ S. Luke ii. 52.

³⁰⁰ Col. ii. 9.

³⁰¹ S. Matt. ix. 4.

³⁰² S. Luke vi. 8.

³⁰³ S. Luke vi. 19.

³⁰⁴ S. John xvi. 15.

³⁰⁵ S. John xiv. 28.

³⁰⁶ Phil. ii. 6.

³⁰⁷ S. John v. 18.

³⁰⁸ S. John x. 30.

³⁰⁹ Ps. cxxxi. 1.

³¹⁰ S. Matt. xi. 27.

³¹¹ Heb. i. 3.

³¹² Ezek. xl. 3.

³¹³ S. John i. 27.

³¹⁴ 2 Cor. xi. 14.

³¹⁵ S. John xvi. 15.

³¹⁶ S. Luke xii. 14.

³¹⁷ S. Luke xi. 29.

³¹⁸ Isa. vii. 11 ff.

³¹⁹ S. Matt. iii. 4.

³²⁰ Ecclus. iii. 22.

³²¹ Ex. xxxiii. 23.

³²² Ex. xxxiii. 20.

³²³ 1 Cor. xiii. 9.

³²⁴ 2 Cor. xiii. 3, 2 Cor. xiii. 4.

³²⁵ Isa. xiv. 14.

¹ It must be borne in mind that the name Mysteries was that by which the sacraments were commonly known in the Early Church, as it is at the present day in the Greek Church the equivalent of our word sacraments. Of course the word has also its usual wider signification.

² This "opening" was a symbolical act, as is explained in the next section. The celebrant moistened his finger with spittle, wherewith he then touched the ear of the catechumen, saying, "Epphatha."