The Journal of Theological Studies Advance Access published online on February 17, 2009
The Journal of Theological Studies, doi:10.1093/jts/fln170
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The Meaning of 

in Theodore of Mopsuestia's Sixteenth Catechetical Lecture and the Silent Recitation of the Eucharistic Prayer
Durham
Correspondence: anthonygelston{at}durham.ac.uk
Abstract
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Georg Kretschmar cited Theodore of Mopsuestia, Catechesis 16 in support of his thesis that part of the eucharistic prayer could be recited silently by the end of the fourth century. This note points out that the use of the Syriac verb 

, to desist or to be silent, in this text does not support Kretschmar's interpretation.