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the mode of the presence. CHRYSOSTOM: 443 "We believe God<br />

everywhere, though to our senses <strong>and</strong> thought that which He says seems<br />

absurd. His word surpasses our sense <strong>and</strong> reason. In all things, but<br />

especially in mysteries, we regard not alone the things which lie before us,<br />

but we cling also to His words. Our senses are easily deceived; His words<br />

cannot mislead us. When therefore He says: This is my body, there is no<br />

ambiguity to hold us; but we believe <strong>and</strong> perceive clearly with the eyes of<br />

the underst<strong>and</strong>ing." CYRIL of Alex<strong>and</strong>ria: "How He can give us His<br />

flesh, it is impious to ask. He who asks it has forgotten that nothing is<br />

impossible with God. We, bringing to the mysteries a firm faith, never<br />

think or urge in such lofty matters that question, How? It is a Jewish word.<br />

When God worketh, we do not ask: How? but commit to Him alone the<br />

way <strong>and</strong> knowledge of His own work." DAMASCENUS: 444 "Of the<br />

mystery, we know only that the word of Christ is true, <strong>and</strong> efficacious, <strong>and</strong><br />

omnipotent--the mode is unsearchable."<br />

16. <strong>The</strong>y represent sacramental communion as oral, corporeal.<br />

IRENAUS: 445 "How say they that the flesh which is nourished by the<br />

body <strong>and</strong> blood of the Lord, falls to corruption? How deny they that the<br />

flesh which is nourished by the body <strong>and</strong> blood of the Lord, is capable of<br />

receiving the gift of God, which is life eternal." TERTULLIAN: 446 "<strong>The</strong><br />

flesh is washed (in baptism), that the soul may be purified; the flesh is fed<br />

with the body <strong>and</strong> blood of Christ, that the soul may be nurtured of God."<br />

CYPRIAN: 447 "Those mouths, sanctified by heavenly food--the body <strong>and</strong><br />

blood of the Lord." CHRYSOSTOM: 448 "Purify thy tongue <strong>and</strong> lips,<br />

which are the portals of the ingress of the Christ. No common honor is it<br />

that our lips receive the body of the Lord." CYRIL: 449 "Christ dwelleth in<br />

us corporeally by the communication of His flesh." AUGUSTINE: 450 "It<br />

seemed fit to the Holy Ghost, that in honor of so great a Sacrament, the<br />

body of the Lord should enter the mouth of the<br />

443 Homil. in Matt. 83.<br />

444 Orth. Fid. IV. 14.<br />

445 Lib. IV. 34; V. 4.<br />

446 De Resurrect. Carn. 8.<br />

447 De Laps. ~ 2.<br />

448 In I. Cor. xxvii.<br />

449 In John xiii., Lib. X.<br />

450 Epist. 118, Contr. Adv. leg. et proph. II. 9.

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