JUVENCUS,[1] L. C. Speaking of the institution of the Eucharist, he says: “Christ taught his disciples, that he delivered to them his own body;" and when he gave them the chalice," he taught them, that he had distributed to them his blood: and said, this blood will remit the sins of the people : drink this, it is mine." Bibl. Max. PP.T.iv. p. 74,
EUSEBIUS OF CÆSAREA, G. C. “ Since then, as the New Testament establishes, we have been instructed to celebrate the memory of this sacrifice of his body and of his saving blood, again we are taught by the prophet David to say: Thou hast prepared a table before me. (Ps. 22.) In these things he openly signifies a mystical unction, and the august offerings of the table of Christ, by which we have learnt to offer to our supreme Lord, through the hand of this great high-priest, unbloody, rational, and benignant sacrifices.“ Dem. Evang. L. 1. c. x. p. 39.—“He shall have delight in the Lord, whose mind being purged from all defilement, shall eat the living bread, the life-giving flesh of the Lord, and drink his saving blood." Com. in Psal. xxxvi. T. i. p. 149. Collect. Nova Montfaucon. Paris. 1706. 6 We, who by faith are called to sanctification, possess the bread from heaven, that is, Christ, or his body.n) Should it be asked, what the power of that body is, we answer: It is
- ↑ He was a native of Spain, and a priest; and has left us the Life of Christ in hexameter verse. He flourished about the year 329, under Constantine the Great.
