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POSTIL, or APOSTIL

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 197 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POSTIL, or
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APOSTIL  , properly a
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gloss on a scriptural
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text, particularly on a
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gospel text, hence any explanatory
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note on other writings . The word is also applied to a
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general commentary, and also to. a
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homily or discourse on the gospel or
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epistle appointed for the
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day . The word in
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Medieval Latin was postilla, and this has been taken to represent
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post ill¢ sc. verba textus, i.e . " after these words of the text " (see Du Cange, Glossarium, s.v. postillae), but the
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form "
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apostil " may point to the Latin appositum, placed near or next to .

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