Worship in the Early Church: Volume 2 by Lawrence J. Johnson;

Author:Lawrence J. Johnson; [Johnson, Lawrence J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780814663042
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2009-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

[Praise of God]

VIII.XII.6. “Truly it is right and just to praise you before all things, for you are the true God, existing before all creatures and ‘from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name.’109 You are the only uncreated one, without beginning, independent, sovereign, lacking nothing, the giver of all that is good, above every cause and origin, always and in every way remaining the same; ‘from you’ as a source ‘everything’110 comes into existence. 7. For you are knowledge without beginning, the eternal vision, unbegotten hearing, inborn wisdom, the first by nature, the measure of being, beyond all number. You made everything from nothing111 through your only-begotten Son. Him you begot directly before all ages by your will, your power, and your goodness, without an intermediary, your only-begotten Son, God the Word,112 the living wisdom, ‘the firstborn of every creature,’113 ‘the angel of your mighty counsel,’114 your high priest, the king and Lord of every rational and sensible nature, who is ‘before all things and through whom all things’ [exist].”115 (1748)

[Anamnesis of creation]

VIII.XII.8. “Eternal God, through him you made everything. Through him you made all things to benefit from your providence; through him you have bestowed existence; through him you have also granted joy. God and Father of your only-begotten Son, through him you created the ‘Spirit of truth,’116 the interpreter and servant of the only-begotten One. After him [you created] the cherubim and the seraphim, the aeons and the hosts, the authorities and ‘the powers, the principalities and the thrones,’117 the archangels and the angels; and after these you also created through him the visible world and all that exists within it. 9. You ‘established the heavens like a veil’118 and ‘stretched it out like a tent’;119 you hung ‘the earth upon nothing’120 by your will alone; you fixed the firmament, formed the day and the night, ‘brought light out of the treasury’;121 and by diminishing it you had the darkness come forth so that the living things that move in the world might rest. You placed the sun in the heavens ‘to govern the day’ and the moon ‘to govern the night.’122 You situated the choir of the stars in the heavens to praise your magnificence. (1749)

VIII.XII.10. “You created water to drink and to cleanse, life-giving air for us to breathe, for sending forth sounds when the tongue strikes it, and for assisting the ear to receive the sounds that come to it. 11. You created the first so that it might reduce the darkness, supply our needs, warm us, and give us light. 12. You separated the great sea from the land; the former you made navigable, the latter you made firm for our feet. The former you populated with a multitude of ‘animals small and great’;123 the latter you filled with animals tame and wild. You adorned the latter with various plants, crowning it with herbs, beautifying it with flowers, and enriching it with seeds. 13. You formed the abyss, setting

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