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The antiphon "Lumen ad revelationem gentium et gloriam plebis tuæ Israel" is repeated after every verse, according to the medieval custom of singing the antiphons.
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During the blessing the “Nunc dimittis” is chanted, with the antiphon “Lumen ad revelationem gentium et gloriam plebis tuæ Israel,” the ceremony being thus brought into connection with the “light to lighten the Gentiles” hymned by Symeon.
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Lumen ad revelationem gentium, Et gloriam plebis tuae Israel.
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Vultum tuum deprecabuntur omnes divites plebis: filiae regum in honore tuo.
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Lumen ad revelationem gentium, Et gloriam plebis tuae Israel.
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Secessio plebis by Rady Ananda on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11: 28: 52 PM
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Because General Strike was not a term that had been invented yet, the term used was Secessio plebis - in which all the plebians (i.e. working class) simply left the city until the patricians (i.e. aristocracy) gave in.
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In 287 B.C., the last time Secessio plebis was used, the working class managed to force the patricians to abolish debt slavery, laws forbidding the marriage of a plebian and a patrician, gave plebians final say in all legislative matters, and allowed any plebian to hold any political office.
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It didn't happen often, but Secessio plebis was extremely effective when it was used.
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Nearly all Bibles agree in these expressions: seventy men of the people and fifty thousand of the populace — “De populo septuaginta viros, et quinquaginta millia plebis.”
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