![]() ![]() The parts of this liturgy placed before and after the anaphora are generally deemed to be later. These changes appear to have been influenced by the dogmatic definitions of the Synods of Antioch in 341 and 345. In particular in the prayer after the Sanctus, but also in the expansion of the Anamnesis, which was influenced by the Christological debates of that period. Over time, crucial parts of the anaphora were expanded by inserting credal statements. The Anaphora of Saint Basil, in its core structure, arose in the 4th century. ![]() Always from the Byzantine text derives the Armenian version known simply as Liturgy of Saint Basil. From this texts derives all the versions used in the Byzantine Rite, such as the Russian and other Slavonic versions, the Georgian version, and the versions used by the Melkite Church in Syriac and Arabic. 336, and this text was the ordinary liturgy celebrated in Constantinople before it was superseded in the common use by the Liturgy of St. The older manuscript of the Byzantine version is 8th century Codex Barberini Gr. H.Engberding in 1931 suggested that these three versions derives from a lost common source (Ω-BAS) and his conclusions were widely accepted by scholars. The other group of the Liturgies of Saint Basil includes the Greek version used in the Byzantine Rite, the older Armenian version known as Liturgy of Saint Gregory the Illuminator and an ancient Syriac version. The present Arabic text of this liturgy is a translation from the Bohairic Coptic version. Basil, and from these it may derive its title, and it may be used by the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria before this Church entirely renounced at its own liturgical tradition in favour of the uses of Constantinople. : 227–8 The Egyptian Greek version contains several prayers (identical with those in the Byzantine liturgy) expressly ascribed to St. From this version derived the Bohairic Coptic version used today in the Coptic Church, as well as the Egyptian Greek and Ethiopic versions. The older Egyptian version was found in 1960 in a Sahidic Coptic, in a 7th-century incomplete manuscript. Basil in the various Eastern Christian rites may be classified into two groups: one which includes the Egyptian texts, and one which includes all other texts. The various extant anaphoras attributed to St. The saint is shown consecrating the Gifts during the Divine Liturgy which bears his name. Fresco of Basil the Great in the cathedral of Ohrid. ![]()
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