285 Rom. xi. 20.
286 S. Matt. xxiv. 44.
287 Acts i. 7.
288 1 Thess. v. 1.
289 Acts i. 7.
290 S. Mark xiii. 32.
291 Gen. xviii. 21.
292 Gen. xi. 5.
293 Ps. liii. 2.
294 S. Luke xx. 13.
295 S. Matt. xxi. 37.
296 S. Mark xii. 6.
297 S. Matt. xxvii. 29 ff.
298 Tit. i. 2.
299 S. Luke ii. 52.
300 Col. ii. 9.
301 S. Matt. ix. 4.
302 S. Luke vi. 8.
303 S. Luke vi. 19.
304 S. John xvi. 15.
305 S. John xiv. 28.
306 Phil. ii. 6.
307 S. John v. 18.
308 S. John x. 30.
309 Ps. cxxxi. 1.
310 S. Matt. xi. 27.
311 Heb. i. 3.
312 Ezek. xl. 3.
313 S. John i. 27.
314 2 Cor. xi. 14.
315 S. John xvi. 15.
316 S. Luke xii. 14.
317 S. Luke xi. 29.
318 Isa. vii. 11 ff.
319 S. Matt. iii. 4.
320 Ecclus. iii. 22.
321 Ex. xxxiii. 23.
322 Ex. xxxiii. 20.
323 1 Cor. xiii. 9.
324 2 Cor. xiii. 3, 2 Cor. xiii. 4.
325 Isa. xiv. 14.
1 It must be borne in mind that the name Mysteries was that by which the sacraments were commonly known in the Early Church, as it is at the present day in the Greek Church the equivalent of our word sacraments. Of course the word has also its usual wider signification.
2 This "opening" was a symbolical act, as is explained in the next section. The celebrant moistened his finger with spittle, wherewith he then touched the ear of the catechumen, saying, "Epphatha."