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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... that the consecrated elements are to be adored with the same Supreme worship as that which is offered to the Divinity itself. That some of the early Christian writers used very extravagant expressions when referring to the Eucharist, and more especially the Eastern Bishops, we freely admit. For instance, Chrysostom said that the mouth hecame red with gore on partaking of the Sacrament; but not one of them refers to the consecrated elements as having been changed in substance. Indeed their writings prove to the contrary. To name a few, Gelasius, Bishop of Rome (a.d. 492), wrote:--"Certainly the sacraments of the body and blood of the Lord, which we receive, are a Divine thing; because by them we are made partakers of the Divine nature. Nevertheless, the substance or nature of the bread and wine ceases not to exist; and assuredly the image and similitude of the body and blood of Christ are celebrated in the action of the mysteries." Cardinal Baronius, and some other zealous Romnnists, have endeavoured to deny the authenticity of this passage by attributing the work to Gelasius of Cyzicus (of the fifth century, nevertheless), and Rome, ashamed of its teacher, has placed the passnge in question in the Roman Expurgatory Index.f There are, however, honest men in that Church, such as Dupin and others, who admit its authority as the genuine production of the Bishop of Rome of that name. To go still higher, Theodoret, J Bishop of Cyrus (a.d. 480), wrote that--" The mystical signs do not depart from their nature, but remain in their former substance, figure, and form." This passage has also been tampered with.§ Again, we have Chrysostom (a.d. 406), who, in his Epistle to Ceesarius, said:--" Before the bread is consecrated, we call it bread; but when the grace ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235662764
- ISBN 13 9781235662768
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages66
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