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rite of baptism.[handwritten: 196] [handwritten: to summarize] Thus, in the fourth and fifth lines, Christ slays or has slain the dragon or the powers of evil and is asked to take care of Kourion.
In the sixth or last line of the inscription, some one, probably Christ, in as much as he is in all [handwritten: xxxxx] probability mentioned in the line above, is spoken of as making something calm or putting it out of the wind, [handwritten: ὀπηνεμεῖν.] [handwritten: 197] The object is feminine in [handwritten: the gen] gender and probably has something to do with the sea, [handwritten: ψυχην] [handwritten: ψυχην] [handwritten: 198] -the complete word being almost certainly [handwritten: βρυχιν] or some compound thereof. This can refer either to Christ's calming the sea and/or rescuing the vessel in which he had been sleeping or to his [handwritten: 199] walking on the waters and calming the sea. [handwritten: 200] Now in one of the exorcisms used before baptism, Christ is spoken of [handwritten: τοῦ]
Handwritten: περιπατήσαντος ὡς ἐπὶ ὕδατα Θαλάσσης καὶ
Handwritten: ἐπιτιμήσαντος τῇ λαίλαπι τῶν ἀνέμων. 201
The word [handwritten: ἐπιτιμήσαντος] in as much as it is used in the rescue of the ship [handwritten: 202] but not in the account of the walking on the waters suggests a conflation of the two stories. [handwritten: 203] In the rite of the blessing of the waters, only his walking on the waters is mentioned [handwritten: σήμερον τὰ ἕνεκτήματα τῶν]
Handwritten: ὑδάτων ὑποστρωννύουσιν τοῖς ἰχνεσιν τοῦ δεσπότου. 204
Although there is no direct positive mention of the saving of the ship in the Greek service, in the Nestorian rite of the blessing of the waters, Christ's ruling [handwritten: the] and calming
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