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forth  for  the  remission  of  sins  V  "  He  taught  the
disciples  that  He  delivered  His  own  Body, — that  He
had  divided  [among  them]  His  own  Blood2."  "By
the  declaration  of  the  Lord  Himself,  and  by  our
faith,  It  is  truly  Flesh  and  truly  Blood;  and  these,
received  and  drunk,  effect  that  both  we  are  in  Christ
and  Christ  is  in  us  V  "From  bread  (because  He
can  and  hath  promised)  He  maketh  His  own  Body ;
of  wine,  His  own  Blood4."  "  He  consecrated  the
two  gifts  of  life,  of  His  Body  and  Blood5;"  "gave
[His  servants]  as  Food  the  sinless  Flesh 6."  "  Christ
Himself  'prepared'  for  the  Church  <  the  Body'  of  the
Lord,  at  the  time  of  the  Mystical  Feast,  when  He
said,  Take,  eat7."  "  He  mingled  the  nature  of  His
Flesh  with  the  nature  of  Eternity,  under  the  Sacra-
ment of  the  Flesh  to  be  communicated  to  us8."
"In  all  who  believe  the  economy  of  grace,  He  in-
serts Himself  through  the  Flesh 9  "  .  .  .  "  mingling
Himself  in  the  bodies  of  believers,  that  by  the  union
with  the  Immortal,  man  too  might  become  partaker

1  S.  Hil.  [32]  in  S.  Matt.  c.  31,  n.  7,  p.  743.
2  Juvencus  [22],  Hist.  Ev.  L.  iv.  Bibl.  Patr.  iv.  74.
3  S.  Hil.  de  Trin.  viii.  14.
4  S.  Gaudent.  [56]  de  Pasch.,  Tr.  ii.  B.  P.  v.,  p.  946.
5  Sedulius  [74],  Carm.  Pascb.  v.  3.     Gall.  ix.  592.
8  Proclus  [73],  Orat.  ix.  init.     Gall.  ix.  655.
7  Didymus  Al.   [46],  ap.  Corderii  Cat.  in  Ps.  39.  7.  T.  i.
p.  748.
8  S.  Hil.  de  Trin.  viii.  §  13.
