It was ordered by the first book of Ed- ward VI that " whensoever the bishop shall celebrate the holy communion in the church, or execute any other ministration, he shall have his pastoral staff in his hand, or else borne or holden by his chaplain." When, however. Dr. Matthew Parker was consecrated archbishop of Canterbury, in December, 1559, no pastoral staff was de- livered to him. Its delivery was pre- scribed in the Ordinal of 1550, but not by that of 1552. From that time the staff has been generally disused, although the bishops of Oxford, Chichester, Rochester, Salisbury, Honolulu, Capetown, and some other colonial prelates, have resumed its use.' — Walcott, Sacred A rchaol. s. v. See |j
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STAFF, Precentor's. A staff or baton of office made of wood or precious metal, used by a precentor («) to designate his rank and office, and also (b) to enable him to beat time and keep time in sight of the whole choir. Of the precentor's staff there are three kinds — (1) ornamented with a pommel of gold, like one preserved at Limburg-on-the-Lahn, and within memory at Rheims; (2) having a carving, like those of St. Gereon's and the Dom at Cologne — the latter has a staff of the r2th century, with the Adoration of the Magi added in the 14th century; (3) terminat- ing in a Tau-shaped head, usually of box- wood, like St. Servais', of the 12th century, at Maestricht. Sometimes the staff was made of ivory, adorned with bands of sil- ver, gilt-edged, with gems, and ending in a crystal ball. It was sometimes called serpentella, from a figure of the Virgin treading on a serpent, as at Paris. The slightly curved top of the "cross of St. Julienne" at Montreuil-sur-Mer, of the I
11th century, marks the transition from the staff to that borne by a bishop. The chanter's baton of St. Denis, now in the Louvre, was carried by Napoleon I, and the French kings before him, at their coro- nation, as " the golden sceptre of Charle- magne," from a seated figure of the mon-
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arch on the top: it is dated 1384. At Amiens the choristers carried little silver crosses, and the |)ricst- chanter and iliaiiter had statTs with ligiircs in a dome- like niche, Imt lormfrly used batons of silver of the Tau-sha()e. which at length descended to the hands of chanters and choristers on certain days. The precentor on great festivals usi-d the staff at Paris, Koiien, Angers, Lvons, Catania, Neti, Messina, and Syracuse, — Walcott, a'acn </ .1 n/iiFol. s. v. See I'KiiCKNTOK.
Staffelsteiner, Paul (originally Nathan Ahrori), a convert from Judaism, was professor of Hebrew at Heidelberg in the Kith century. The programme in which the rector of ilie university invited the students U> attend his lectures is still preservo.l, and from the following passage we may judge as to the lectures Staf- felsteiner was to deliver: "Idem hie auspical)itur eras ab enarratione Celebris dicti quod de mundi duratione in domo Helia; sonuisse trailitur. Grammatica deinceps tractabit comi)endia ac pnecepta e scriptura petitis ex- emplis iilustrabit idiiiie curabit sedulo, ut ad phrasin, ipia- multos a philol^icis lectionibus arcet, adsuetieri auditor possit vetustissimamtpie illam paulatim amare theologiam," Staffelsteiner published, Tiactat vom Messiius (Heidelberg, loGO) : — Adiinrtatio ad Judieos ad Opinionem de Messia Curandi Diss. (ibid. 15G0) : — Et'/u- tatio Corruplumis I's. xrii, Jud<eis Factie (ibid. 15(50) : — Votira;/ iiber die Wahrhtit des Chrisienthums, being an intnxluctiou to his lectures (ibid. 1551). See Kalkar, lura^^l iind die Kirche, p, 88 ; Furst, Bibl. Jud. iii, 377 ; (ieigcr, l>as Studiuni der hebr. Sprache in Beutsc/dund, p. 'JO. (B. P.)
Stafifort Book, The, a book written to justify the exchange of the Lutheran for the Reformed faitli by the margrave P>nest Frederick of Baden (died 1004), and printed in 1599 at the Castle of Slaffort, a few miles to the north of Carlsruhe. It begins with a preface ad- dressed to margrave George Frederick, and tlien pro- ceeds to collate the Aut/ustana as embodied in the Jiook of Concord with the original manuscript copy figned by the princes assembled in diet at Naumburg, Fel). 1, 15CI. Next follows a careful comparison of the Lutheran catccliism contained in the Book of Concord with the Wittenberg edition of 1570. The object of this review was to demonstrate that intentional altera- tions and falsilicatioiis had been made. A detailed crit- icism of the teachings of the Formula of Concord is given, with reference especially to Cliristology and the doctrine of the ubiipiity of Clirist's bodj- in the sacra- ment, followed by an examination of the citations from ancient ecclesiastical writings contained in the appen- dix to the Hook of Concord, and designed to show the general correspondence of doctrine between these differ- ent authoriiie.-4. Every variation from the original, so discovereil, is at once cliarged to wilful dishonesty. The lxM)k concludes with thi- margrave's own confession of faith with reference to the doctrines (/e libt^ro arbilrio, de prori/l4-ntin JJei, de prtrdfu/inatione, de persona Christi, of the sacraments generally, and of baptism and the Lord's su|)per particularly.
A response Ui the Staffort book was issued by the Wllrtemberg theologians in the following year (1000) ; and a wcond work appeared in 10(11 in defence of the Hook if Coiirord. The .Saxons also entered the lists against the '' margrave's Calvinistic iiook." Two re])lies to the Wurtembergers were issued by the margrave in 1G()2. The controversy was, however, transferred to other hniids by the margrave's death in 1C04.— Herzog,