εὖ γοῦν θίγοις ἂν χερνίβων → well could you, of course, handle holy vessels
praereptor: ōris, m. praeripio,I one who seizes a thing before another, a forestaller (eccl. Lat.): fllius, qui ad benedictionem fratris praereptor adstiterat, Hier. Ep. 36, n. 15.
