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But he who has been entrusted with the office of summoning the
religious assembly and with the care of the service should not presume to
rouse the brethren for their daily vigils irregularly, as he pleases, or as
he may wake up in the night, or as the accident of his own sleep or
sleeplessness may incline him. But, although daily habit may constrain him
to wake at the usual hour, yet by often and anxiously ascertaining by the
course of the stars the right hour for service, he should summon them to
the office of prayer, lest he be found careless in one of two ways: either
if, overcome with sleep, he lets the proper hour of the night go by, or if,
wanting to go to bed and impatient for his sleep, he anticipates it, and so
may be thought to have secured is own repose instead of attending to the
spiritual office and the rest of all the others.
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