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25 Luke 22.32.
26 John 17.20–23.
27 Luke 23.34.
28 John 11.41.
29 John 12.28.
30 Luke 15.22.
31 2 Cor. 12.9.
32 Psalm 3.
33 John 18.37.
34 Rev. 1.17–18
35 John 17.3.
36 Luke 23.46.3
These prayers are based on prayers in the Apostolic Constitutions (fourth
century), books IV, VII and VIII, as in Coxe, A. C. (ed.) The Ante-Nicene
Fathers, Vol. VII (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literatum Publishing, 1888).
37 VII, XXXIII, ‘A Prayer Declarative
of God’s Various Providence’, p. 472.
38 VII, XXXV, ‘A Prayer, with
Thanksgiving, Declarative of God’s
Providence over the Beings he has
Made’, p. 473.
39 VII, XLV, ‘A Prayer for New Fruits’,
p. 477.
40 VII, XXXVI, ‘A Prayer
Commemorative of the Incarnation
of Christ, and His Various
Providence to the Saints’, p. 474.
41 VII, II, ‘Moral Exhortations of the
Lord’s Constitutions’, p. 465.
42 VII, XLIX, ‘A Prayer At Dinner’,
p. 478.
43 VIII, X, ‘The Bidding Prayer for the
Faithful’, p. 485.
44 IV, IX, ‘That the People Ought
to Be Exhorted by the Priest to
Do Good to the Needy, as Says
Solomon the Wise’, p. 435.
45 VII, XXXVIII, ‘A Prayer for the
Assistance of the Righteous’, p. 475.
46 VII, XLVIII ‘An Evening Prayer’,
p. 478.
47 Psalm 4.
48 VII, XXVI, ‘A Thanksgiving at the
Divine Participation’, p. 470.
49 VII, XLVIII ‘An Evening Prayer’,
p. 478 (Luke 2.29–32).4
These prayers are adapted from the writings of Ephrem the Syrian (trans.
J. Gwynn, 1898) as in A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
(NPNF). 2nd Series, Vol. 13, (ed.) Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (Grand
Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989).