The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2190 page)

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Sepp
Gison
(Japanese name):
Seppuku
(ritual suicide):
Septuagesima
.
The third Sunday before
Lent
, nine weeks before
Easter
. See also
QUINQUAGESIMA
.
Septuagint
(often written LXX, the Latin numerals)
.
The early Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures inherited by the Christian Church. It is so-called because it was supposed to have been translated by seventy scholars (according to the
Letter of
Aristeas
, it was 72).
Sequence
.
A hymn, usually in couplets, sung in the
mass
on certain days after the
epistle
. In medieval times a large number of sequences (
c.
150 melodies and 400 texts, with at least 5,000 having been written) were in regular use, but in the
missal
only five are now printed.

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