the early importance of that sacrifice cf. 2 Ki. 16:15; Ezr. 9:5; Ps. 141:2; for the N. T. age Acts 3:1; 10:3; and for the Rabbinic order of the three daily Prayers Berak., iv, 1. On the subject of the stated prayers s. Hamburger, RE 2, ‘Abendgebet,’ ‘Minchagebet,’ ‘Morgengebet’; Zunz, Gottesdienstliche Vorträge, 368 ff.; Schürer, GJV §24, n. 40 and §27, Anhang; Bousset, Rel. d. Jud., 202 ff. This custom of the three daily times of prayer went over into the Church: Didache 8, Τρὶς τῆς ἡμέρας
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