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1873); AssEMANH. Bibliolhe'
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Docummis pour sermr d I hisioireaw^ ^.^^ ^^^ ' f L ,.ntv two The verbal acrostic IS more rare, ine
1895); Idem, Lcs G'-t"„,^'5 f^fniifiv'wr^H Die orVentoHscfc ,,„„„„. the hvmn IS composed scr%es to term nnear
»-'^ -^^ .^;:i.|S(lK'i»^^"^^S =°'^;:^;^ is :;;m;oJ:d serves j^f^™^-
!;frt'7^;:^'ifX(meiM'^/r B^^^^^ 1902); Bb^h.eb. Le ""^j hic acrostics. St. Ephraem signed »ome ot
i\ZT'SfJr.l^T'x^^c^,^^^^^^^^?4t^oXs with his acrostic. _,__ .__^_^ ^^ ^^^^,^^
.cHisme Orien^Ud^ X^^>^ 1^96) D "cHESsrr^e Church.
Easltm and "^"'f- ^ .'^ „ v'nrk 1907) • Hefele-Le Clebcq
U67S-I904) Pans. I".'"',' ^S^ en Sw^^ et en Palealine 1900); gances {Irangeres donf le L<-tarU en ^V"e « " Sch^ff. Herqen- See also the general ^.stones of the Church b>^h^^^^^^^ ESTHER. ALZoo. Dt-cHESNE. etc , and m particui churches,
periodicals. devoted.mam^ytg^c,tud> oUh^^^ ^,^^.^^^_ p^^^.
VIZ.: R""« :\.{,f?"™„v„ : ' phevalier-s Ripertoire des sources
^'K"U« t'h ^S the influence of Arabic
poetrTmade "tself felt in Sj-riac hymnody, espex^ially
hv the introduction of rhj-me; this manner of mark-
t^/thefh™ stroke of a verse had been hitherto un-
Sfown the r.a e examples held to have been discovered
anZg Oder authors being merely voUinary or fortui-
tous resonances. But the Syrians ■":" « J^i'^-^^,"^"^";
rhyme. There are poems m which all the Y^-Sf-^ "^^e
the same rhyme as in the "Kasida of the AraDs,
' ■ ..I- .„s;,w; (Tours 1899); W. M. Marshall,
cornpaQmede]emx>enSmel.^o^-}^2u:^ g^,^;,, j^r katho. Chrislian Mtssxons (London. 1°^',,%j,.^.kovsky, Diet, des MisBionen (5 vols Cologne^ 18o7-6o)^UJCN Km ^^ ^.^^
Missions Caih. .(P?"^',„„^Linf3(Prri3 1898); and the two ?e"rwy'^%luo^erai;^vrv?l: ^^e ^SfSkeni cluien. passio.. end Echos d'Orient. ^ „
Gabriel Oussani.
and for the last. These are the most frequent com-
binations, but there are others Fnhraem
Most ancient hymns, e. g. those o St. Eplu-aem
Narses and Balai, although composed fof one or two
S were not originally intended for Ijturgical use
cnou-s, were iiuu vji f^™. „:. ...„_„ .,rl,lressed as much to
.vriac Hvmnody -To the general consideration 'the cof cato of^^^^^^^^ "^hTrlsult^'of ada'pT-
t'ffi ^^frfide m-.,.o?v AKn,H™xox.OGV -t y.t regda^^^^^^^^^
Bet forth in
, H^Nonr AND H^NOLOGY not >;;j-^^g"^f„7to Ik^^^^^^^^ offices was that hey un-
must""be added some bearing particularly on the "i^ '^ese h> mns to l g j^ t, assignment
Smcture and liturgical use of hj-nms {madras)w), derwent, various ^^ ^^^,^^ Jacobites and the Maro-
IS mOOUiCailuiia. v.; -j ", "i.,i„_„
itnicture ana murgicai u=l. ^^ "j- — n -;- . .-■ "f"„„tiinrshir>— the Svriaa Jacobites anU the niaro- xdusTve of poetical homilies or discourses {nnmre) °^^'Y^°XK those of Nestorian origin either sup- which belong to the narrative and epic cKss.whiletlie "'tes m adop^ g ^^^^^^ ^^ substituted the
isV/;rS5;X'=n°'J.>"5= sr.i;r«u ■■.»?„ *;..", ...«» -* «.»
or grouped in siropura, ii.>;-»— —■■ =■ ,
freauent in hj-mns composed of vei^es of fa%e and S ^-Uables. A strophe is generally ^-^oniposed o raua^?er^es, but it sometim.-s happens that the fii^t o? the iSt verse is in a different measure from the oher ve^ of the strophe. All the strophes of a h\Tnn are usually of the same construct on. ^B^ides variety of metre and division mto strophes the SSirprior to the ninth centurj' knew no other artifice than th<- arrangement of acrostic poems. The acrostic phayed an import ant part in SjTiac hj-mnody and its vise, especially the alphabetic acrostic seems gms:- to have be^n ntroduce.l in imitation of the Psalms and the Lamentations of Jeremixs. Sometimes the IcrostAc is linear, simple when each verse begins suc- cSh with one of the twenty-two letters of the S^ac alphabet, multiple, when two, three or more vlre« begin with the same letter without^ forming t«rh<^t sometimes it isstrophic when each strophe is marked by a letter of the alphabet. Ihis letter
Jesus Our Lord the Christ [Father,
Has awed to us from the bosom of His He h^ come to deUver us from darkness, A^d to illumine us with his resplendent light. It was preceded by the foUowing distich which forms the refrain:
Licht is arisen upon the just XS joy for those who are broken-hearted. Likewise a hymn of Narses on the Epiphany be-
Error like darkness,
Was stretched over creatures;
The light of Christ is risen
And the world possesses knowledge.
Its refrain is the following distich:—
Hynins do -t occiir only in tl^ (^^whicb ^
IB marked hy a letter in i..c "'i'", "Vl . .^.,.„„ „r it Hvmns do not occur only in uie v/i"»-c ""7";^„j-
-%. b1 r-e-^at^d^l^t^Sgln^ing ^^^^"^ BpSto the Koman Breviary; the Syrians also made
