20. After this ye hear the chanter inviting
you with a sacred melody to the communion of the Holy Mysteries, and
saying, O taste and see that the Lord is good Ps. xxxiv. 9. In the Apostolic
Constitutions the “Sancta Sanctis” and its
response are immediately followed by the “Gloria in
excelsis,” and the “Hosanna.” Then the Clergy
partake, and there follows a direction that this Psalm xxxiv. is to be
said while all the rest are partaking. In the Liturgy of
Constantinople there is the direction: “The Choir sings the
communion antiphon (τὸ
κοινωνικόν)
of the day or the saint.”. Trust not the judgment to thy bodily
palate For μὴ
ἐπιτρέπητε,
probably an itacism, we should read μὴ
ἐπιτρέπεται,
as a question, the propriety of the change being indicated by the
answer οὐχί. “Is the judgment
of this entrusted to the bodily palate? No, but,
&c.” no, but to faith
unfaltering; for they who taste are bidden to taste, not bread and
wine, but the anti-typical ἀντιτύπου
σώματος, “the
antitypical Body,” not “the antitype of the Body,”
which would require τοῦ
σώματος. Cf. Cat. xxi.
§ 1, note 6. Body and Blood of
Christ.