[5.93] Acts xvi. 25; I. Cor. xiv. 15; Col. iii. 16; Eph. v. 19; James v. 13.
[5.94] The identity of this chant in religious communities which have been separated from the earliest ages proves that it is of great antiquity.
[5.95] Num. v. 2; Deut. xxvii. 15, et seq.; Ps. 106, 48; I. Chron. xvi. 36; Nehem. v. 13, viii. 6.
[5.96] I. Cor. xiv. 16; Justin. Apol. i. 65, 67.
[5.97] I. Cor. xiv. 7, 8, does not prove it. The use of the verb ψάλλω does not any more prove it. This verb originally implied the use of an instrument with strings, but in time it became synonymous with “to chant the Psalms.”
[5.98] Col. iii. 16; Eph. v. 19.
[5.99] See Du Cange, at the word Lollardi (edit. Didot). Compare the Cantilenes of the Cevenols. Prophetic warnings of Elijah Marion (London, 1707), p. 10, 12, 14, &c.
[5.100] James v. 12.
[5.101] Matt. xvi. 28; xxiv. 34; Mark viii. 39; xiii. 30; Luke ix. 27; xxi. 32.