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 | | As to its ornamentation, it is to be observed that the rubrical direction is not that it shall be "plain," that is, without any ornaments, but that it shall be "fair," that is, in the old English of the rubric, beautiful. |
 | | The rubric says that the priest shall first receive the communion in both kinds himself, and after that proceed to deliver the same to the people, into their hands, "all devoutly kneeling." The "all" who are here bidden to kneel surely does not include the priest. |
 | | Regarding the people, as the rubric does, as a body of worshipers in the church, it cannot mean by the term "before" in their presence or sight, but must mean here, as it did when the term was previously used, at some one side of the people. |
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