[32] St. Luke ii. 13, Rev. vii. 9, xiv. 3. Compare 2 Chron. v. 12.
[33] See Palmer's 'Origines Liturgicæ,' vol. ii., Appendix; the 'Directorium Anglicanum;' Lee 'On Eucharistic Vestments;' and the Rev. Jas. Skinner's 'Plea for the Ritual' (Masters): but especially the last-named writer's most able dissertations in the 'Guardian' of Jan. 17 and Jan. 24, 1866; and the Dean of Westminster's speech in Convocation, Feb. 9, 1866.
[34] Compare the well-known passages, "If any man will take away thy cloke (outer robe), let him have thy coat (or tunic) also." "Ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely."—Micah ii. 8. "His garments ... and also his coat ... without seam, woven from the top throughout." "The cloke that I left at Troas ... bring with thee."
[35] 'Directorium Anglicanum,' pp. 16, 21. "The amice is an oblong square of fine white linen, and is put on upon the cassock or priest's canonical dress. It is embroidered or 'apparelled' upon one edge. In vesting, it is placed for a moment, like a veil, upon the crown of the head, and then spread upon the shoulders." "The apparel of the amice cannot be too rich in its ornamentation." Amice is the Latin amictus—"the covering," referring to Psalm cxl. 7, "Thou hast covered my head in the day of battle."
[36] See Neale, Introduction to 'History of Eastern Church,' vol. i. p. 308.
[37] The very ancient Syriac Liturgy of St. James has the loose stole, as in the West, and crossed too upon the breast.—Renaud. p. 15.
[38] "In all prayers, even in those recited at home preparatory to the public Office, the Epitrachelion (i.e. stole) is worn."—Neale, 'Eastern Church,' p. 313. And St. Dunstan's Canons, A.D. 979, order "That no priest ever come within the church door, or into his stall, without a stole."—Hook's 'Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury,' vol. i. p. 488.
[39] Hist. Eccl. iii., 31: ὁς ἐγενήθη ἱερευς τὸ πέταλον πεφορεκώς.
[40] 'De Hæresi,' 78. The very ancient Clementine Liturgy has "exchanging his vestment for a gorgeous one;" αμπρὰν ἐσθῆτα μετενδύς.
[41] ποδήρη, στέφανον, στολήν.