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Chapter I. Of the Canonical System of the Nocturnal Prayers and Psalms.
Chapter II. Of the difference of the number of Psalms appointed to be sung in all the provinces.
Chapter III. Of the observance of one uniform rule throughout the whole of Egypt, and of the election of those who are set over the brethren.
Chapter IV. How throughout the whole of Egypt and the Thebaid the number of Psalms is fixed at twelve.
Chapter V. How the fact that the number of the Psalms was to be twelve was received from the teaching of an angel.
Chapter VI. Of the Custom of having Twelve Prayers.
Chapter VII. Of their Method of Praying.
Chapter VIII. Of the Prayer which follows the Psalm.
Chapter IX. Of the characteristics of the prayer, the fuller treatment of which is reserved for the Conferences of the Elders.
Chapter X. Of the silence and conciseness with which the Collects are offered up by the Egyptians.
Chapter XI. Of the system according to which the Psalms are said among the Egyptians.
Chapter XII. Of the reason why while one sings the Psalms the rest sit down during the service; and of the zeal with which they afterwards prolong their vigils in their cells till daybreak.
Chapter XIII. The reason why they are not allowed to go to sleep after the night service.
Chapter XIV. Of the way in which they devote themselves in their cells equally to manual labour and to prayer.
Chapter XV. Of the discreet rule by which every one must retire to his cell after the close of the prayers; and of the rebuke to which any one who does otherwise is subject.
Chapter XVI. How no one is allowed to pray with one who has been suspended from prayer.
Chapter XVII. How he who rouses them for prayer ought to call them at the usual time.
Chapter XVIII. How they do not kneel from the evening of Saturday till the evening of Sunday.
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