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Life of St Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza
Mark the Deacon, tr. Hill, 1913
Chapter 77
But when the people were come together with the said tools in the holy church that is called Peace, he bade them all singing together to go to the place where the Marneion was aforetime, and he himself followed after, carrying the sacred gospel-book and having around him the holy clergy, verily after the likeness of Christ with his disciples. And before the people went Barochas, whose memory endureth alway, bearing the figure of the precious Cross, and on either side of the people were the soldiers which were left behind for the good government of the city. And as they went they sang, and in the place of the division of the psalm they said the Alleluia; and this was the psalm1 which they said: ‘O come, let us rejoice before the Lord, let us make a joyful noise unto God our saviour. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For God is a great lord and a great king over all the earth; for in his hand are the ends of the earth and the high places of the hills are his; for his is the sea and he made it, and his hands fashioned the dry land. O come let us worship and fall down before him, let us cry aloud before the Lord our maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.’
Notes
- Ps. xcv. [xciv.] 1-7.