gory of Nyssa, St. Cyril of Alexandria, St. Gaudentius, St. Chrysostom, and St. Augustin, which will be found below, in their proper places.
FATHERS.
CENT. I.
ST. IGNATIUS, G. C. These Gnostic heretics "abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not acknowledge the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father by his goodness resuscitated. Rejecting therefore this gift of God they die in their disputes.” Ep. ad Smyrn. p. 36. T. ii. PP. Apost. Amstelædami, 1724.—“I take no delight in food that perishes, nor in the pleasures of this life. What I desire is the bread of God, the heavenly bread, the bread of life, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ the Son of God, who was born of the seed of David; and I desire the drink of God, his blood, which is charity incorruptible, and eternal life.” Ep. ad Rom. p. 29. Ibid.
CENT II.
ST. JUSTIN,[1] L. C. “Our prayers being finished, we
- ↑ A Christian Philosopher, by birth a Greek, who suffered martyrdom at Rome, about the year 166, having, a few years before, addressed two apologies, in favour of the Christians, to the Emperor Antoninus Pius and to the Roman senate. In these is contained much curious matter on the doctrine, and manners, and religious ceremonies of the early Christians. Justin is also author of other works, particularly of a Dialogue with the Jew, named Tryphon.
