[The Angelical Salutation is here an evident interpolation, marring the grand unities of the liturgy.] ↩

[I place in a note what follows:]-- Then the Priest says aloud:-- Hail in the highest, our all-holy, pure, most blessed, glorious lady, the God-mother and ever-virgin Mary. The Singers. Verily it is becoming to bless Thee, the God-bearing, the ever-blessed, and all-blameless, and mother of our God, more honourable than the cherubim, and incomparably more glorious than the seraphim: thee, who didst bear with purity God the Word, thee the true God-mother, we magnify. And again they sing:-- In thee, highly favoured, all creation rejoices, the host of angels, and the race of men; hallowed temple, and spiritual paradise, pride of virgins, of whom God was made flesh and our God, who was before eternity, became a little child: for He made Thy womb His throne, and Thy bowels more capacious than the heavens. In thee, O highly favoured one, all creation rejoices: glory unto thee. ↩