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Orthodox readings for 25 October 2009
Readings from Scripture have been an essential part of church worship since the first century. In the early Church, the readings and even the canon of books from which they were selected were chosen by the bishop, the primate of the local Church.
The tradition of dividing the biblical text into a cycle of excerpts for worship has its roots in the 3rd century and took final shape in the 5th and 6th centuries. The present-day cycle of Scripture readings in the Orthodox Church assigns a so-called ordinary reading for each day of the liturgical year.
This cycle begins at the Easter vigil with the first passages from the Gospel of John and the Acts of the Apostles, and continues until the next Easter. Thus the whole New Testament, except the Book of Revelation, is read in one year. On feast days, special passages are selected either because they describe the celebrated event or because they are connected with the feast in some other way. The ordinary readings for that day can either be omitted or read together with the feast-day readings at the Divine Liturgy.
In addition, certain Gospel excerpts are read during matins and vespers.
The Orthodox reading cycle consists mainly of the ordinary readings for each day.
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1:11 But I certify you, brethren - He does not till now give them even this appellation. That the gospel which was preached by me among you is not according to man - Not from man, not by man, not suited to the taste of man.
1:12 For neither did I receive it - At once. Nor was I taught it - Slowly and gradually, by any man. But by the revelation of Jesus Christ - Our Lord revealed to him at first, his resurrection, ascension, and the calling of the gentiles, and his own apostleship; and told him then, there were other things for which he would appear to him.
1:13 I Persecuted the church of God - That is, the believers in Christ.
1:14 Being zealous of the unwritten traditions - Over and above those written in the law.
1:15 But when it pleased God - He ascribes nothing to his own merits, endeavours, or sincerity. Who separated me from my mother's womb - Set me apart for an apostle, as he did Jeremiah for a prophet. Geremia 1:5. Such an unconditional predestination as this may consist, both with God's justice and mercy. And called me by his grace - By his free and almighty love, to be both a Christian and an apostle.
1:16 To reveal his Son in me - By the powerful operation of his Spirit, Corinzi 2 4:6; as well as to me, by the heavenly vision.That I might preach him to others - Which I should have been ill qualified to do, had I not first known him myself. I did not confer with flesh and blood - Being fully satisfied of the divine will, and determined to obey, I took no counsel with any man, neither with my own reason or inclinations, which might have raised numberless objections.
1:17 Neither did I go up to Jerusalem - The residence of the apostles. But I immediately went again into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus - He presupposes the journey to Damascus, in which he was converted, as being known to them all.
1:18 Then after three years - Wherein I had given full proof of my apostleship. I went to visit Peter - To converse with him.
1:19 But other of the apostles I saw none, save James the brother (that is, the kinsman) of the Lord - Therefore when Barnabas is said to have "brought him into the apostles," Atti 9:27, only St. Peter and St James are meant.