Also Exodi iije. capitulum., whanne Moyses kepte the schep of Ietro preest of Madian, he came with his scheep to the Mount of Oreb. And God apperid to him in the flamme of fier fro the myddis of a busch, and he siȝ that the busch brent, and ȝit was not therbi waastid. Therfore Moises seide: I schal go and y schal se this greet siȝt, whi the busch is not wastid. Sotheli the Lord sie that Moyses ȝede to se, and he clepid Moyses fro the myddis of the busch, and seide: Neiȝe thou not hidir, but vndo the scho of thi feet; for the place in which thou stondist is holi lond, et cætera. Certis no man may seie that this holines of place came yn bi sum cerimonie of Iewis lawe, for euereither of these stories were doon eer eny lawe was ȝouun to the Iewis: and therfore this holynes of the ije. maner was neuere reuokid bi Cristis passioun.
In the iije. maner a thing is holi, (thouȝ also in an vnpropir maner, in reward of the first maner;) whanne [whanne euere, MS. (first hand).] it is departid and take fro worldli and fleischli vce, and is deputid and assigne to more goostli vce anentis God than it was bifore. And in this maner breed, water, erthe, or place, hous, candil, oile, vestimentis, vesselis, and suche othere thingis, whanne ouer hem ben blessingis maad, (that is to seie, whanne ouer hem preiers be mad,) and thei ben aliened and take fro wordli vsis in whiche thei were bifore, and thei ben assigned and deputid into more goostli vsis, (that is to seie, that men vse hem aftirward in a certein office of worschiping toward God,) ben holi. In this maner Seint Dionyse, the disciple of Seint Poul, in his book Of the Chirchis Ierarchie ["…." Dionys. Areop. de Eccl. Hierarch. c. 2. (Op. tom. 1. p. 255. Ed. Cord.) Pecock, however, does not so much seem to have any par|ticular passage in his eye, as to note the fact that Pseudo-Dionysius applies such epithets as … to the chrism, the altar, the eucharistic elements, &c. See pp. 294, 295, 339, &c.] clepith alle suche
