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OF S. CHRYSOSTOM.
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In the left side,

And as a blameless lamb, dumb before his shearers, He opened not His mouth.

And into the upper part of the seal,

In His humiliation His judgment was taken away.

Then into the lower part,

And who shall declare His generation?

The Deacon, looking devoutly at this being done, saith, at each incision,

Let us pray of the Lord,

holding his Orarion with three fingers of his right hand. After which he saith,

Master, elevate.

And the Priest, thrusting the holy Spear slantingly into the right side of the Oblation, lifteth up the holy Bread, saying,

For His life was taken away from the earth,