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Commentary from 
THE ANNOTATED
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Edited by JOHN HENRY BLUNT
Rivingtons, London, 1884
 

THIRD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.

The Christian virtue of humility is set forth in the Epistle for this Sunday in the words of St. Peter, and illustrated in the Gospel by the example of our Blessed Lord in receiving sinners and eating with them.  The Collect, however, seems to take its tone from the latter portion of the Epistle, which speaks of the afflictions and sufferings to which the early Christians were subjected.  The Epistle and the Collect are, in fact, much more frequently associated together in tone and language than the Collect and the Gospel; indicating a probability that the Gospels were not read in the Communion Service until a later period than that in which the Epistles came to be used.