33. And after Easter’s Holy Day of
salvation, ye shall come on each successive day, beginning from the
second day of the week, after the assembly into the Holy Place of the
Resurrection The place meant
is not the Church of the Resurrection in which the Service had been
held, but the Anastasis or actual cave of the Resurrection, which
Constantine had so enlarged by additional works that a discourse to the
people could be held there: for Jerome (Epist. 61) relates
that Epiphanius had preached in that place in front of the Lord’s
sepulchre to clergy and people in the hearing of John the Bishop (Ben.
Ed.)., and there, if God
permit, ye shall hear other Lectures; in which ye shall again be taught
the reasons of every thing which has been done, and shall receive the
proofs thereof from the Old and New Testaments,—first, of the
things done just before Baptism,—next, how ye were cleansed from
your sins by the Lord, by the washing of water with the
word Eph. v. 26.,—and how like
Priests ye have become partakers of the Name of Christ,—and how
the Seal of the fellowship of the Holy Ghost was given to
you,—and concerning the mysteries at the Altar of the New
Testament, which have taken their beginning from this place, both what
the Divine Scriptures have delivered to us, and what is the power of
these mysteries, and how ye must approach them, and when and how
receive them;—and at the end of all, how for the time to come ye
must behave yourselves worthily of this grace both in words and deeds,
that you may all be enabled to enjoy the life everlasting. And
these things shall be spoken, if it be God’s pleasure.