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To begin, then, whence arose the idea of a priest? What is the meaning of the word? Etymologically, we may take it to be identical with the Saxon word preost, which again is doubtless, though it is not admitted on all hands, identical with the Greek presbys or elder. A priest, then, originally and literally, signified senior or elder, whether in the family or the State.
He them lovingly beheld, the Lord to him be merciful! Pen he took in fingers and wrote upon a book skin, And the true words set together, And the three books pressed to one." That, in words such as we use now, is how Layamon begins his poem. But this is how the words looked as Layamon wrote them: "An preost wes on leoden: lazamon wes ihoten. he wes Leouenaoes sone: lioe him beo drihte."
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