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| Chapter I. Of the services of the third, sixth, and ninth hours, which are observed in the regions of Syria.
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Chapter I.
Of the services of the third, sixth, and ninth hours,
which are observed in the regions of Syria.
The nocturnal system of
prayers and Psalms as observed throughout Egypt has been, I think, by
God’s help, explained so far as our slender ability was able; and
now we must speak of the services of Tierce, Sext, and None, according
to the rule of the monasteries of Palestine and Mesopotamia,716
| 716 According to S.
Jerome, Hilarion was the first to introduce the monastic life into
Palestine (Vita Hilar.). His work was carried on by his
companion and pupil Hesycas and Epiphanius, afterwards Bishop of
Salamis in Cyprus. In Asia Minor S. Basil was the greater organizer of
monasticism, though, as he tells us, there were already many monks, not
only in Egypt but also in Palestine, Cœlosyria, and Mesopotamia
(Ep. ccxxiii.). See also on the early monks of Palestine and the East,
Sozomen, H. E., Book VI., cc. xxxii.–xxxv. | as we said in the Preface, and must
moderate by the customs of these the perfection and inimitable rigour
of the discipline of the Egyptians.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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