What profit have these words? Verily, that we Eating, and Drinking, may evermore be mindful of him, that died for us,1 and rose again. So S. Ambrose, Quia morte Domini liberati sumus, huins rei memores in Edendo, & Potando, Carnem, & Sanguinem, quae pro nobis oblata sunt, Significamus. Bicause we are made free by the Death of our Lord, being mindful thereof, in Eating, and Drinking, we Signify the Flesh, and Blood, that Christ offered for us. Origen expounding these words of Christ, Onlesse ye Eat the Flesh of the Son of Man, &c. saith thus, Agnoscite, Figuras esse, quae in Divinis voluminibus scriptae sunt: 2& ideo tanquā Spirituales, & non tanquam Carnales examinate, & intelligite ea, quae dicuntur. Nam, si quasi Carnales ista suscipitis, laedunt vos, non alunt. Know ye, that these be Figures written in the Holy Scriptures: and therefore examine, and understand ye the things that be spoken, as men Spiritual, and not as Carnal. For if ye take these things, as Carnal men, they hurt you, and feed you not. Tertullian expoundeth Christs words in this wise, 3Hoc est Corpus meum, hoc est, Figura Corporis mei. This is my Body: That is to say, This is a Figure of my Body. S. Ambrose speaking of the Sacrament of Christs Body, useth oftentimes these terms, a Figure, a Similitude, 4a Sign, a Token of Christs Body. S. Augustine, beside infinite other places, saith, 5Christus adhibuit Judam ad Conuiviū, in quo Corporis sui Figuram Discipulis •uis commendavit. Christ took Judas unto his Table, whereat he gave unto his Disciples the Figure of his Body. And writing against the Heretic Adimantus, he saith, 6Non dubitavit Dominus Dicere, Hoc est Corpus meum, cùm daret Signum Corporis sui. Our Lord doubted not to say, This is my Body, when he gave a Token of his Body. So Chrysostom, Si mortuus Christus non est, cuius Symbolum, ac Signū, hoc Sacramentum est? 7If Christe died not, whose Sign, and whose Token, is this Sacrament? So S. Hierome, In Typo Sanguinis sui, non obtulit Aquam, sed Vinum. In token ⟨p. 447⟩of his Blood, he offered not Water, but Wine.
VVhat profitte haue these woordes? Verily, that wee Eatinge, and Drinkinge, may euermore be mindeful of him, that died for vs,1 and rose againe. So S. Ambrose, Quia morte Domini liberati sumus, huins rei memores in Edendo, & Potando, Carnem, & Sanguinem, quae pro nobis oblata sunt, Significamus. Bicause wee are made free by the Death of our Lorde, beinge mindeful thereof, in Eatinge, and Drinkinge, wee Signifie the Fleashe, and Bloud, that Christe offered for vs. Origen expoundinge these woordes of Christe, Onlesse ye Eate the Fleashe of the Sonne of Man, &c. saith thus, Agnoscite, Figuras esse, quae in Diuinis voluminibus scriptae sunt: 2& ideo tanquā Spirituales, & non tanquam Carnales examinate, & intelligite ea, quae dicuntur. Nam, si quasi Carnales ista suscipitis, laedunt vos, non alunt. Know ye, that these be Figures written in the Holy Scriptures: and therefore examine, and vnderstande ye the thinges that be spoken, as men Spiritual, and not as Carnal. For if ye take these thinges, as Carnal men, they hurte you, and feede you not. Tertullian expoundeth Christes woordes in this wise, 3Hoc est Corpus meum, hoc est, Figura Corporis mei. This is my Bodie: That is to say, This is a Figure of my Bodie. S. Ambrose speaking of the Sacrament of Christes Bodie, vseth oftentimes these termes, a Figure, a Similitude, 4a Signe, a Token of Christes Bodie. S. Augustine, biside infinite other places, saith, 5Christus adhibuit Iudam ad Conuiuiū, in quo Corporis sui Figuram Discipulis •uis commendauit. Christe tooke Iudas vnto his Table, whereat he gaue vnto his Disciples the Figure of his Bodie. And writinge against the Heretique Adimantus, he saith, 6Non dubitauit Dominus Dicere, Hoc est Corpus meum, cùm daret Signum Corporis sui. Our Lorde doubted not to say, This is my Bodie, when he gaue a Token of his Bodie. So Chrysostome, Si mortuus Christus non est, cuius Symbolum, ac Signū, hoc Sacramentum est? 7If Christe died not, whose Signe, and whose Token, is this Sacrament? So S. Hierome, In Typo Sanguinis sui, non obtulit Aquam, sed Vinum. In token ⟨p. 447⟩
- 1Ambrosius in 1. Corin. ca 11.
- 2Origen. in Leviticum. hom. 7.Origen. in Leuiticum. hom. 7.
- 3Tertullian▪ contra Marcionem, li. 4.
- 4Ambrosius de Sacra. li. 4. ca. 5.
- 5Augustin. in Psalm. 3.
- 6Augustinus con tra Adimantū. Cap. 12.Augustinus cō tra Adimantū. Cap. 12.
- 7Chrysost. in Matthae. hom. •3 of Hieronym. aduersus Jovinianum. li. 2.Chrysost. in Matthae. hom. •3 of Hieronym. aduersus Iouinianum. li. 2.
