BOOK II. OF THE CANONICAL SYSTEM OF THE NOCTURNAL PRAYERS AND PSALMS.



Index

CHAPTER I: Of the Canonical System of the Nocturnal Prayers and Psalms.

CHAPTER II: Of the difference of the number of Psalms appointed to be sung in all the provinces.

CHAPTER III: Of the observance of one uniform rule throughout the whole of Egypt, and of the election of those who are set over the brethren.

CHAPTER IV: How throughout the whole of Egypt and the Thebaid the number of Psalms is fixed at twelve.

CHAPTER V: How the fact that the number of the Psalms was to be twelve was received from the teaching of an angel.

CHAPTER VI: Of the Custom of having Twelve Prayers.

CHAPTER VII: Of their Method of Praying.

CHAPTER VIII: Of the Prayer which follows the Psalm.

CHAPTER IX: Of the characteristics of the prayer, the fuller treatment of which is reserved for the Conferences of the EIders.

CHAPTER X: Of the silence and conciseness with which the Collects are offered up by the Egyptians.

CHAPTER XI: Of the system according to which the Psalms are said among the Egyptians.

CHAPTER XII: Of the reason why while one sings the Psalms the rest sit down during the service; and of the zeal with which they afterwards prolong their vigils in their cells till daybreak.

CHAPTER XIII: The reason why they are not allowed to go to sleep after the night services

CHAPTER XIV: Of the way in which they devote themselves in their cells equally to manual labour and to prayer.

CHAPTER XV: Of the discreet rule by which every one must retire to his cell after the close of the prayers; and of the rebuke to which any one who does otherwise is subject.

CHAPTER XVI: How no one is allowed to pray with one who has been suspended from prayer.

CHAPTER XVII: How he who rouses them for prayer ought to call them at the usual time.

CHAPTER XVIII: How they do not kneel from the evening of Saturday till the evening of Sunday.