{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140184.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140184.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140184.htm","text":"The Psalms are not to be joined together in the congregations, but a lesson shall intervene after every psalm.\nAncient Epitome of Canon XVII.\nIn time of service lessons shall be interspersed with the Psalms.\nIt was well to separate the Psalms by lessons when the congregation was gathered in church, and not to keep them continuously singing unbroken psalmody, lest those who had assembled might become careless through weariness.\nThis was an ancient custom which has been laid aside since the new order of ecclesiastical matters has been instituted. 178\nHere it may be remarked we find the real reason why in our present rite, the lections, verses, etc., of the nocturns are placed between the Psalms, so as to repel weariness.\nI do not understand this note, as to-day in the Divine Office of the Greek Church the Psalms are still divided by Lessons. Vide The Horologion(\u1f61\u03c1\u03cc\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd \u03c4\u1f78 \u03bc\u03ad\u03b3\u03b1) and an English translation by G. V. Shann, entitled Euchology, A Manual of Prayers of the Holy Orthodox Church.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Canons of the Councils of Ancyra, Gangra, Neoc\u00e6sarea, Antioch and Laodicea, which Canons were Accepted and Received by the Ecumenical Synods.: Canon XVII","type":"page"}