34. S. Chrysos- S. CHRYSOSTOM, In 1 Cor., hom. xxiv., n. 2, Gaume, tom. x., p. 249.

tom.

CHRIST even herein [in giving us His Blood] exhibited His care and fervent love for us. And in the old covenant, because they were in an imperfect state, the blood which they used to offer to idols, He Himself submitted to receive, that He might separate them from those idols: which very thing again was a proof of His unspeakable affection; but here He hath transferred the sacred office to that which is far more awful and glorious, changing the very sacrifice itself, and instead of the slaughter of irrational creatures, commanding to offer up Himself."

35. S. Chrysos- S. CHRYSOSTOM, In Eph., hom. iii., n. 5, Gaume, tom. xi., p. 26.

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"It is for this reason, that they which are in sin are first of all put forth. For just as when a master is present at his table, it is not right that those servants who have offended him should be present, but they are sent out of the way, just so also here when the Sacrifice is brought forth, and CHRIST, the LORD'S Sheep, is sacrificed.'

36. S. Chrysos- S. CHRYSOSTOM, In Diem Nat. Jesu Christi, n. 7, Gaume, tom. ii., p. 430.

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"Think with thyself, O man, what Sacrifice thou art about to touch, what Table to approach! Lay to heart that, being earth and ashes, thou partakest of the Body and Blood of CHRIST-GOD invites thee to His own Table, and setteth before thee His Own Son."

37. S. Chrysos- S. CHRYSOSTOM, In Psalm., cxl., n. 4, Gaume, tom.

"This [the tongue] is the member through which we receive the awful Sacrifice (the faithful know what I mean)."

38. S. Jerome. S. JEROME (ob. 420), Ad Damasum, Epistle xxi. (alias

cxl.), n. 26, tom. iv., col. 155.

"The fatted Calf Who is sacrificed for the salvation

of the penitent, is the SAVIOUR Himself, by Whose Flesh we are daily fed, Whose Blood we drink. This feast is daily celebrated: daily does the FATHER receive the SON; always is CHRIST sacrificed for believers (semper Christus credentibus immolatur)."

S. JEROME, Dial. adv. Pelag., 1. iii., n. 15, tom. iv., 39. S. Jerome. col. 543.

"He so taught His Apostles, that believers should,

at the Sacrifice of that Body, venture to say, 'Our

FATHER.'

S. JEROME, Quæstt. Heb. in Gen., xiv., 18, tom. iii., col. 40. S. Jerome. 329.

'In that he says, 'Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec,' our Mystery is signified. under the word order,' not in sacrificing irrational animals through [the order of] Aaron, but by the offering bread and wine, that is, the Body and Blood of the LORD JESUS."

S. JEROME, Comm. in Matt., 1. iv. (c. xxvi., 26), 41. S. Jerome. tom. iv., col. 128.

"After that the typical Passover was finished, and He had eaten the flesh of the Lamb with the Apostles, He takes bread, which strengtheneth the heart of man, and passes to the true Paschal Sacrament; that as Melchisedec, Priest of the Most High GoD, offering bread and wine, had done in prefiguration of Him, He Himself might re-present [to the FATHER] in the VERITY of His own Body and Blood."

S. JEROME, Comm. in Ezech., 1. xiii. (c. xliv., 2), tom. 42. S. Jerome. iii., col. 1023.

"Himself is the Prince, and High-Priest after the

order of Melchisedec,' and Sacrifice, and Priest."

S. JEROME, Comm. in Ezech., 1. xiv. (c. xlvi., 13), tom. 43. S. Jerome. iii., col. 1049, 1050.

"He shall sacrifice a burnt-offering unto the LORD, a

Lamb' of the first year,' and not on certain days, but

44. S. Jerome.

tius.

'daily,' nor at any hour, but' in the morning,' shall he sacrifice it. Who that Lamb without spot is, Isaiah will say more fully (lv. 7) and Jeremiah (xi. 19) and John Baptist (John i. 29). And let not the reader wonder that the same is Prince and Priest, and Calf and Ram and Lamb, since in Holy Scripture we read of Him as LORD and GOD, and Man- and Prophet, and Stem and Root, etc., as the case requires. In the whole burntoffering, then, of that Lamb of the first year, without blemish, which is always offered in the morning, the Prince Himself will make the Sacrifice or Minchah. And a third part of a hin of oil is offered, that it may be mingled or sprinkled on the fine flour, a sacrifice to GOD, continual, by a perpetual ordinance, which is no day intermitted, but is always offered, at all times, at the rising of the sun, that that may be fulfilled which is put at the close of this section- He shall offer a Lamb for a sacrifice, and oil every morning for a continual burnt-offering.'

S. JEROME, Comm. in Osee, 1. ii. (c. viii., 13), tom. iii., col. 1290.

"These [heretics] sacrifice many sacrifices and eat them, forsaking the one Sacrifice of CHRIST, and not eating His Flesh, Whose Flesh is the food of believers. Whatever they do, simulating the order and rites of the Sacrifice, or whether they give alms, GOD will accept none of such sacrifices."

45. S. Gauden- S. GAUDENTIUS of Brescia (ob. circa 420), De Exodi. Lect., Serm. ii., Migne, P. L., tom. 20, col. 854, 855.

In the shadow of that legal Passover not one lamb was slain, but many. For one was slain in every house, since one was not sufficient for all. But a figure is not the reality (proprietas) of the LORD'S Passion. For a figure is not the verity, but an imitation of the verity. In this verity, then, in which we are, One died for all; and the Same in each house of the Church, in the mystery of bread and wine, being

sacrificed (immolatus), refresheth; believed on, quickeneth; consecrated, sanctifieth the consecrators. This

is the Flesh of the Lamb: this His Blood.”

S. AUGUSTINE (ob. 430), Ep. liv. ad Januar., c. vii., n. 46. S. Augus9, Migne, P. L., tom. 33, col. 204.

But some have thought good, and that with show of reason, that on one fixed day in the year, on which the LORD gave the actual supper, it is lawful that the Body and Blood of the LORD should, as though for a more marked commemoration, be offered and received after eating."

tine.

S. AUGUSTINE, Quastt. in Lev., qu. lvii., Migne, P. L., 47. S. Augustom. 34, col. 704.

"But whereas the LORD says, 'Except ye eat My Flesh and drink My Blood, ye have no life in you;' why were the people so strictly forbidden the blood of the sacrifices which were offered for sins, if by those sacrifices this one Sacrifice was signified, wherein is the true remission of sins; while yet the Blood of that Sacrifice itself, not only is no one forbidden to receive for nourishment, but rather all, who wish to have life, are exhorted to drink."

tine.

S. AUGUSTINE, Enarrat. in Psalm., xxi. (Enar. i.), n. 48. S. Augus28, Migne, P. L., tom. 36, col. 178.

"I will offer my vows unto the LORD, in the sight of them that fear Him.' The Sacrifice of peace, the Sacrifice of love, the Sacrifice of His Body the faithful know."

tine.

S. AUGUSTINE, In Psalm., xxxiii., n. 5 et 6, Migne, 49. S. AugusP. L., tom. 36, col. 302, 303.

"The Sacrifice of the Jews was, as ye know, according to the order of Aaron, in animal victims, and this is a mystery; for not as yet was the Sacrifice of the Body and Blood of CHRIST, which the faithful know and they who have read the Gospel, which Sacrifice is now diffused throughout the whole world. . . . The Sac

tine.

50. S. Augustine.

51. S. Augustine.

rifice of Aaron then was taken away, and the Sacrifice after the order of Melchisedec began. Our LORD JESUS CHRIST willed our salvation to be in His Body and Blood. But whereby commended He His Body and Blood? By His humility. For were He not humble, it could not be eaten or drunk. By Him are the Angels filled. But He made Himself of no reputation,' that man might eat Angels' food, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross;' that so from His Cross might be commended unto us the Body and the Blood of the LORD, for a new Sacrifice."

S. AUGUSTINE, In Psalm., xxxix., n. 12, Migne, P. L., tom. 36, col. 441.

'Sacrifice and burnt-offering Thou wouldest not,'
said the Psalmist to GOD. For the ancients, when as
yet that true Sacrifice which the faithful know was fore-
announced in figures, celebrated the figures of the sub-
stance (rei) which was to be.
Why did He
not will them? Why did He first will them? Because
all those things were as words of one promising; and
promissory words, when what they promise is come,
are spoken no more. Those sacrifices then, as promis-
sory words, have been taken away. What has been
given in fulfilment? That Body which ye know;
which ye do not all of you know; which of you who
know It not, I pray GOD none may know It to your
condemnation."

S. AUGUSTINE, De Civitate Dei, 1. x., c. 20, Migne,
P. L., tom. 41, col. 298.

"He is a Priest (as well as a Sacrifice). Himself offering, Himself also the Oblation. Of which thing He willed the daily Sacrifice of the Church to be a Sacrament. The Church, being that body whereof CHRIST Himself is the Head, learns to offer herself through Him. Of this true Sacrifice the ancient sacrifices of holy men were tokens manifold and various. "