File:The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception of the Ever Glorious Virgin Mary ... Selected from a very rare work in French, and translated by John Hanbury, etc. (IA TheLittleOfficeOfTheImmaculateConception).pdf

" TO THE READER. The Translator, in order to make this little work as perfect as possible, will prefix a few words explanatory of the proper names (of men and women) used in the Office. Among the Hebrews and Greeks such names are very expressive ; and though the holy author of the Office may never have contemplated derivation, yet those names, in their original signification, are strongly expressive of the glory of the Most Sacred Virgin. The language of the Office is figurative ; the Notes at the end will fully explain it. These few hasty lines will be useful as a supplement, and they are, with the Hotes, intended solely for the less informed reader. All are aware that the adorable name Jesus is a Hebrew word, signifying Saviour. Christ is a Greek word signifying " the anointed" because our liord was a priest — " a priest eternally, according to fhe order of Melchisedech" — a compound word, expressing the title and one of the attributes of our Saviour, namely " King of Justice...."

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