are on Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist, made for their instruction, to be read by those who approach to Baptism, and by the faithful, who have already received it;but, as for the Catechumens, and those, who are not Christians, take care not to communicate them to such. Otherwise, take notice, you will be accountable to God. If you transcribe a copy of them, do it, I conjure you, as in the presence of the Lord.” Pref. in Catech.
SYNOD OF ALEXANDRIA,[1] G. C.-In their Synodical letter to the Orthodox, they say: “ They (the Eusebians) are not ashamed to celebrate the mysteries before the Catechumens, and, perhaps, even before the Pagars; forgetting, that it is written, that we should hide the mystery of the King; and in contempt of the precept of our Lord, that we must not place holy things before dogs, nor pearls before swine. For it is not lawful to shew the mysteries openly to the uninitiated ; lest, through ignorance, they scoff at them, and the Catechumens be scandalized through indiscreet curiosity.” Conc. Gen. T. ii.p. 547.
CENT. III.
ST. CYPRIAN, L. C. Writing to the Proconsul of Africa, he says: “Till now I had despised the impieties and sacrileges which thy mouth discharged incessantly against the only true God.”—He adds, that if he had been silent, it was not without the command of his Divine Master," who forbids us to give that which is holy to dogs, and to cast pearls before swine.” He then establishes the Unity of God, but says nothing of the Trinity, or of the Sacraments of the Church. Ep. ad Demetrianum, p. 185. Oxonii, 1682.
ORIGEN, G. C. Stop not at the blood of the flesh (that
- ↑ Held in 340. One hundred Bishops from the Thebais, Lybia and Pentopolis, assisted at it, and vindicated St. Athanasius from the charges brought against him by the Eusebians.
