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y sacramental conjunction His body, is identified by Him with the<br />

ancient prophetic figura of His body. <strong>The</strong> thing which the prophet calls<br />

bread is literally Christ's body; the thing which Christ offers in the<br />

Eucharist is literally Christ's body. Hence, we recognize the ancient figura<br />

of the body in the bread, as we "recognize the ancient figura of the blood<br />

in the wine." "As now He bath consecrated His blood in wine, who under<br />

the Old Covenant figurated wine in blood," so now He hath consecrated<br />

His body in bread, as under the Old Covenant He figurated bread in His<br />

body. What is figure there is reality here--the figura <strong>and</strong> reality are thus<br />

identified--the bread of Jeremiah <strong>and</strong> the bread in the Supper are one <strong>and</strong><br />

the same thing, to wit, the body of Christ.<br />

4. <strong>The</strong>y constantly distinguish between the elements considered as<br />

before the consecration <strong>and</strong> after it. IRENAEUS: "<strong>The</strong> bread which<br />

receives the vocation of God in the administration of the Supper."<br />

ISIDORE: "That which being made of the fruits of the earth is sanctified<br />

<strong>and</strong> made a sacrament, the Spirit of God operating invisibly."<br />

THEODORET: "After consecration, we call the fruit of the vine the Lord's<br />

blood." CYRIL of Jerusalem: 428 "<strong>The</strong> bread <strong>and</strong> wine of the Eucharist<br />

before the invocation is mere bread <strong>and</strong> wine."<br />

5. <strong>The</strong>y assert that the bread after consecration is not in every respect<br />

what it was before. IRENAEUS: "It is not common bread." "Though that<br />

bread be bread before the sacramental words, yet, when the consecration is<br />

added, of bread it becomes Christ's body." 429 "Our bread <strong>and</strong> cup is not<br />

mystical, but is made mystical to us by a certain consecration," 430 CYRIL<br />

of Jerusalem: "After invocation, the bread becomes the body of,Christ, <strong>and</strong><br />

the wine His blood."<br />

6. <strong>The</strong>y assert the presence of two elements; the first of which is<br />

earthly, the second, heavenly. IRENAEUS: 431 "It is a Eucharist consisting<br />

of two things, an earthly thing <strong>and</strong> heavenly<br />

428 Cat. Myst. Prim.<br />

429 De Sacramentis, Lib. IV., imputed to Ambrose.<br />

430 Augustine, Contr. Faust. L. XX. c. 18, fit non nascitur.<br />

431 Adv. Her. IV. 34.

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