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The text used here is from the Barberini manuscript of the late eighth century. The English version of the Greek text provided here is simply a literal translation indicating the content of each line for the benefit of those readers who have little or no knowledge of Greek; but even this version does give some idea of the kind of stylistic pattern the author (or authors) was trying to create. DJ & RCDJ 44 The Anaphora of St John Chrysostom 45 This is an essay in the fundamental sense of the term: an attempt to talk descriptively about selected stylistic features of the anaphora of the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom.

There is mild paradox, often found in Christian language, in the statement that God on high has respect unto the lowly. There are doublets, which emphasise a point by lingering on it: 'glory and praise'; 'by night and day'; 'in meekness and a pure heart'. These features somewhat intensify emotion, but com- Rhetoric of the Early Christian Liturgy 43 pared to some other Christian writing, and compared to Saint Paul at his most expansive, they are restrained. For all its sacral language the prayer, taken as a whole, is simple, intimate, familiar, belonging to that period or that tradition in the Church which eschews affectation, pomp and elaborate ceremony and seeks its effect in clarity, sincerity, scriptural authority and dignity.

The New Testament and Christian writing and speaking generally, at least before the Apologists, is in the koine, the common spoken Greek of the Hellenistic and Roman period. With certain exceptions, periodic sentences, the use of the optative mood, literary prose-rhythms and the more artificial figures of speech are not employed. Christian communities contained many simple people who, even if literate, probably could not have read and understood the dialogues of Plato with ease. Preaching and praying in the early Church was largely a matter of free composition by the speaker.

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