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Christian before any other food. Christ Jesus giving us His flesh to eat <strong>and</strong><br />

His blood to drink, we receive with faithful heart <strong>and</strong> with the mouth;<br />

although it seems more fearful to eat human flesh than to perish, more<br />

fearful to drink human blood than to shed (our own)." GREGORY: 451<br />

"<strong>The</strong> blood of the Lamb is now upon the side-posts, when it is drunken not<br />

only with the mouth of the body, but also with the mouth of the heart."<br />

"His blood is poured into the mouths of believers." LEO: 452 "Doubt not of<br />

the verity of the body <strong>and</strong> blood of Christ, for that is taken by the mouth<br />

which is believed by faith."<br />

17. <strong>The</strong>y affirm that the unworthy, whether administrators or<br />

recipients, impart or partake of the body <strong>and</strong> blood of Christ. CYPRIAN:<br />

"<strong>The</strong>y dare to profane the holy body of the Lord," (by giving it to the<br />

impenitent). "With polluted mouth he drinketh the blood of the Lord.<br />

With defiled h<strong>and</strong>s he taketh the body of the Lord." CHRYSOSTOM: 453<br />

"How shall he dare to approach the judgment-bar of Christ who has dared<br />

with impious h<strong>and</strong>s <strong>and</strong> lips to touch His body." "How can we receive the<br />

body of Christ with such reproach <strong>and</strong> contumely." AMBROSE said to<br />

the Emperor <strong>The</strong>odosius: 454 "With what rashness dost thou take with thy<br />

mouth the cup of precious blood, when by the fury of thy words innocent<br />

blood has been spilt." AUGUSTINE: 455 "Is it right, that from the mouth<br />

of Christians, when the body of Christ has entered, should come forth the<br />

wanton song, as it were the poison of the Devil?" OECUMENIUS: 456<br />

"<strong>The</strong> unworthy with their impure h<strong>and</strong>s receive Christ's most sacred body,<br />

<strong>and</strong> bring it to their execrable mouth." LEO: 457 "With unworthy mouth<br />

they receive the body of Christ." THEODORETUS: 458 "To Judas His<br />

betrayer, also, the Lord imparted His precious body <strong>and</strong> blood."<br />

18. <strong>The</strong>y institute a parallel, in certain respects, between the<br />

incarnation of the second person of the Trinity <strong>and</strong> the sacramental<br />

presence. JUSTIN: “As Jesus Christ, being through the word of God<br />

incarnate, had both flesh <strong>and</strong> blood for our salvation,<br />

451 Hom. XXII., Pasch. Dialog. IV.<br />

452 De jejun. 6.<br />

453 Eph. Hom. I.<br />

454 <strong>The</strong>odoret. Hist. Eccles. V. 17.<br />

455 De Tempor. Serm. 215.<br />

456 In I Cor. xi.<br />

457 De Quadrag. Serm. iv.<br />

458 I Cor. xi.

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