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Benedictus es Domine Deus Israel patris nostri ab aeterno in aeternum. Tua est Domine magnificentia, et potentia et gloria atque victoria: et tibi laus: cuncta enim quae in caelo sunt et in terra, tua sunt; tuum Domine regnum, et tu es super omnes principes. Tuae divitiae, et tua est gloria: tu dominaris omnium, in manu tua virtus et potentia: in manu tua magnitudo, et imperium omnium … Domine Deus Abraham et Isaac et Israel patrum nostrorum, custodi …

There is, however, a difference between the Biblical and the classical eulogies, in spite of the almost complete identity of structure; the difference is instinctively felt by the reader. For its exact analysis, we are again indebted to Eduard NordenNorden, E.; he has shown that the particular form of the tu anaphoraAnaphertu-Anapher which begins with ‘thou art’6 and corresponds to God’s own words ‘I am’,7 is decidedly and exclusively Jewish,8 not Hellenic or Roman. None of the examples taken from classical literature contains this form; in Greek or Latin, it appears only late, through Christian and similar influences. As DanteDante’s anaphorasAnapher are mostly of this pattern (tu sei, sei), or of the closely similar ‘in Thee is’ or ‘Thine is’,9 he seems to follow the Jewish and Biblical rather than the classical tradition.