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The dying man raised his voice in a last effort; he repeated the oath with which the Creed ends. The Gospels were handed to him; he kissed them with fervour. 'Sic me Deus adjuvet, et Sancta Dei Evangelia. 'So may God help me, and His Holy Gospels! I joined in the words mentally, overcome with joy.
Among the illuminated ones, that which bears the number 1810 demands special attention. It is an Evangelia executed in Greece in the twelfth century, and written in black and red characters on the finest vellum. Some of the miniatures have suffered woefully, the paint having cracked in parts, but the faces are still full of beauty and life.
Barnabas, who in his humility may have so named himself, while soliciting relief for the distressed Palestine Christians; "I am Barnabas the beggar." But the whole notion seems to rest on an anachronical misconception of the 'Evangelia'. Every great mother Church, at first, had its own Gospel. Ib. p. 288.
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