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to accept them, as Thou wert graciously pleased to accept the gifts of Thy just servant Abel, and the sacrifice of our Patriarch Abraham, and that which Thy High Priest Melehisedech offered to Thee, — a holy sacrifice and unspotted victim.
Bowing down, he says:
WE most humbly beseech Thee, Almighty God, to command these things to be carried by the hands of Thy holy Angels to Thy altar on high, in the sight of Thy divine Majesty, that as many as shall partake of the most
