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so also, as we have been taught, the food...is the flesh <strong>and</strong> blood of the<br />

incarnate Jesus." HILARY: 459 "<strong>The</strong> Word was made flesh, <strong>and</strong> we through<br />

the food of the Lord truly receive the Word made flesh." AUGUSTINE: 460<br />

"<strong>The</strong> Eucharist consists of two things--the visible species, <strong>and</strong> the invisible<br />

flesh <strong>and</strong> blood of our Lord--the Sacrament <strong>and</strong> the thing of the<br />

Sacrament, as the person of Christ consists <strong>and</strong> is constituted of God <strong>and</strong><br />

man (sicut Christi persona constat et conficitur Deo et homine)."<br />

CYPRIAN: 461 "As in the person of Christ the humanity was seen <strong>and</strong> the<br />

divinity was hidden, so the divine essence infuses itself ineffably by the<br />

visible Sacrament."<br />

19. <strong>The</strong>y affirm in the strongest manner the identity of the true body<br />

<strong>and</strong> blood with the body <strong>and</strong> blood which are given in the Supper.<br />

CHRYSOSTOM: 462 "That which is in the cup is that which flowed from<br />

His side; <strong>and</strong> of that we are partakers." AMBROSE: 463 "<strong>The</strong>re is that<br />

blood which redeemed His people...It is His own body <strong>and</strong> blood we<br />

receive." "<strong>The</strong> body (in the Eucharist) is that which is of the Virgin."<br />

20. <strong>The</strong>y compare the Eucharist with the most stupendous miracles<br />

under both dispensations, appealing to the miracles against the deniers or<br />

perverters of the sacramental doctrine. Such passages are so numerous <strong>and</strong><br />

familiar as to require no quotation.<br />

<strong>The</strong> whole testimony of the Fathers can be arranged into a selfharmonizing<br />

system accordant with the Lutheran doctrine. Neither<br />

Romanism nor Calvinism can make even a plausible arrangement of this<br />

kind on their theories. <strong>The</strong> Fathers held, in the Supper, to the true<br />

presence of the elements, <strong>and</strong> so cannot be harmonized with Romish<br />

Transubstantiation: they taught a true presence of the body <strong>and</strong> blood of<br />

Christ, <strong>and</strong> so cannot be harmonized with the Calvinistic spiritualism.<br />

Alike in their assertions <strong>and</strong> negations, they accord with the positive<br />

doctrine of the Lutheran Church, <strong>and</strong> the antithesis of that doctrine to error.<br />

So steadfast was the faith of the Church on this point that<br />

459 De Trinit. VIII. 13.<br />

460 Apud Gratian. de Consecr. II. 48.<br />

461 Serm. de Sacra. Coen.<br />

462 In I. Cor. Hom. XXIV.<br />

463 De Sacram. VI. 5.

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