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Eucharist) the bread was present in reality, and the body figura
tively, and that the expression
"
this is my body" is a figure of
is Elias" The Council
speech, just like the John expression,
"
of Florence, in the Decree of Union for the Greeks, decrees,
"
that the body of Christ is truly consecrated (veracitur confici)
in bread of wheat, either leavened or unleavened."
11. It is proved, sixthly, by the perpetual and uniform Tra
dition of the Holy Fathers. St. Ignatius the Martyr (6) says :
"
Eucharistiam non admittunt, quod
non confiteantur Eueha-
ristiam esse carnem Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi." St. Ira?-
neus (7) :
"
Panis percipiens invocationem Dei jam non communis
panis est sed Eucharistia." And in another place he says (8) :
"
Eum, panem in quo gratis sunt actae, corpus esse Christi, et
calicem sanguinis ejus."
St. Justin, Martyr, writes (9) :
hunc ut communem panem suminus, sed quemadmodum per verbum
Dei caro factum est J. C. carnem habuit," &c. He, there
" Non
fore, says, that the same flesh which the Word assumed is in the
Eucharist. Tertullian (10) : says
"
Caro corpore ct sanguine
Christi vescitur, ut et anima de Deo saginctur." Origcn
writes (11) :
"
Quando vitse pane et poculo frueris, manducas ct
bibis, corpus et sanguinem Domini." Hear St. Ambrose (12) :
"
Panis iste panis est ante verba Sacramentorum ; ubi accessorit
consecratio, de pane fit caro Christi." St Chrysostom says (13) :
"
Quot nunc dicunt vellem ipsius formam aspicere Ecce cum
vides, Ipsum tangis, Ipsum manducas." St. Athanasius, St.
Basil, and St. Gregory of Nazianzen, express the same senti
ments (14). St. :
Augustin says (15)
"
Sicut mediatorem Dei et
hominum, hominem Christum Jesum, carnem suam nobis mandu-
candam, bibendumque sanguinem dantem ficlei corde suspicimus."
St. Remigius (16) says :
"
Licet panis videatur, in veritate corpus
"
Quid sit san-
Christi est." St. Gregory the Great writes (17) :
guis agni non jam audiendo sed libcndo didicistis qui sanguis
super utrumque postern ponitur quando non solum ore corporis,
(6) St. Ignat. Ep. ad Smirn. ap. (13) St. Chrys. Horn, ad Theodor. Dial. 3. tioch.
Pop. An-
Antoin. de Euch. Theol.
(7) St. Iraen. /. ad Huer. c. 18, al 34. (14) Apud.
(8) Idem, 1. 4, c. 34. Univer. c. 4, 1.
(9) St. Justin. Apol. 2. (15) St. Aug. /. (10) Tertul. /. Resur. c. 8. c. 9.
2, con. adver. legis.
(11) Grig. Horn. 5, in divers. (16) St. Remig. in (12)
Ep. ad Cor. c. 10.
St. Amb. /. 4, de Sacram. c. 4, (17) St. Greg. Horn. 22, in Evang.