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… wear white clothes for one week, [handwritten: Χ]Χ F.C.Conybeare, Rituale Armenorum, (Oxford,1905),pp.411-2. In the rite, these white clothes were worn for one week and then they and the crown removed. Now in one of the prayers of the Greek ceremony in which these clothes were removed, there is mention of the everlasting crown, [handwritten: τῷ δὲ ὡ ἀφθάρτῳ στεφάνῳ μέχρι τέλους νικητάς πάντας ἀπαδείξῃ]
F.C.Conybeare,Rituale Armenorum,(Oxford,1905),p.407, Just before this, the baptized are spoken of as [handwritten: οἱ ἐνδυσάμενοι ἐν παῖ], [handwritten: "This is, a reference to the putting on of the Ibidem,pp.411-2.] [handwritten: τοῦ Χριστοῦ] .This is, a reference to the putting on of the Ibidem,pp.411-2. As new man and thereby to the wearing of the white clothes which [handwritten: ἐνδυσάμενοι] is a reference to the xxxxxx clothes which they had been wearing, so [handwritten: στέφανος] may be a reference to the crown they had on their heads. At least in one rite where the crown was placed on the baptized, in the xxx ceremony in which it was removed, the priest prayed, ac in regno tuo hanc coronam recipiat,H.Denzinger,Ritus Orientalium,Vol.I,(Würzburg, 1863),p.328. 457. Ephraem Syrus,Hymni et Sermones,edited by T.J.Lamy,Vol.I, (Mechelen,1882),p.104. 458. H.Denzinger,Ritus Orientalium,Vol.I,(Würzburg,1863), p.369, and G.Diettrich,Die nestorianische Tauflitturgie, (Giessen,1903),p.23. 459. J.Wilpert,Die römischen Mosaiken und Malereien,Vol.III,
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