Macomber's reconstruction of the Anaphora of Addai and Mari + Creed of AphraatesThe Creed of Aphraates (cf. Henry Hill, "The Assyrians: The Church of the East," in Light from the East,ed. Henry Hill, Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1988, 126, with additions from Moffett, 130)Now this is faith: when a man shall believe in God, the Lord of all, who made the heavens and the earth andthe seas and all that is in them, who made Adam in His image, who gave the Law to Moses, who sent HisSpirit in the prophets, who sent the Messiah into the world, and that a man should believe in the bringing tolife of the dead, and believe also in the mystery of baptism: This is the faith of the Church of God. And that aman should separate himself from observing hours and Sabbaths and months and seasons, and enchantmentsand divinations and astrology and magic, and from fornication and from revelling and from vain doctrines,the weapons of the Evil One, and from the blandishments of honeyed words, and from blasphemy and fromadultery, and that no man should bear false witness, and that none should speak with double tongues: Theseare the works of the faith that is laid on the true Rock which is the Messiah, upon whom all the building dothrise.Anaphora of the Holy Apostles Addai and Mari[reconstructed version of the original anaphora, based on the versions used by the Maronite churches (theSyrian churches which accepted the Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon) and the Chaldean churches (theNestorian churches which submitted to Rome after the 16th century).] (cf. William Macomber, "The AncientForm of the Anaphora of the Apostles," in East of Byzantium: Syria and Armenia in the Formative Period,ed. by Nina Gargoian, Thomas Mathews, Robert Thomson, Washington, DC: Centre for Byzantine Studies,1982, 73-88)]Celebrant: We are offering the oblation to God, the Lord of all. People: It is right and just.Celebrant: Let our minds be on high. People: To thee, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, glorious Kin...