The consecration of the eucharist : a study of the prayer of consecration in the communion office from the point of view of the alterations and amendments established therein by the revisers of 1789

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THE NEU TESTAMEN RATIONALE 2 leasit accountsed io by the possibilit that the scrilbo, no comprehending the distinction, mari edis clearly by S. Luke, etween the PaSSOve and the Eucharist, ould tali out o the texi ha appeared to him toto a redundancy. Simila motives may have prompted the omissiono versos 16 1 in tho Coptic, and verses 7-l in the Peshitto. The rea lings of the old Latin and of the Curetonian and of tho institi Syriae, reSpectively, PreSentother attempt eithe to eorrect the SuppoSed redundaney, orno suppinthe deiectis a texi that was bolore the eopyistor translator, a lex simila to that o Code Bezae. Thouartous rea ling O S. Luke xxii. 14-20, aro uret moste ii explaine Mupon the hypothesis o an early attempt or attemptes to consorin tho texi heroos to that os . Matthe an o S. Mark, a the resultis no appreciatingthat . uti describes in ordor two distinet things, thelast assove and the firs Eucharist. The vary in devices employed by different copyisis o translator toreme ly the SuppoSed redundaney, sorved ut o bring in rea confusion that hadiso previolis existence A quiet stud of these varianis, bearin in in S. Luke' own statemunt ut the oginning o his ospei, ought to e Sufficient to Setini rest an doubis one manliave teli under the Spol eas by the great names of esteoti and Hori os

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s et ae

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THE NE TESTAMENT RATIONALE

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saerifico hieli is io allieoples and ali times, corroborates silenti S. Paul 's rorid-wide promulgation Oi the Eucharist, an a the fame time obviate an miSeonception ariSingiro in the les olearly articulated strue ture o the othe two accounts. et there e no mistake. The ast assoverWas ne hing, Christ ' Eucharist is nother. Tho mos trit in an mos interestin thing, hoWeVer, that a comparison o these soli narrative revenis, Stho ac that the sequende os Christ ' procedure, the order

Luke i. 3 Ἀδοξε κἀμοὶ παρηκολουθηκότι νωθεν ἀσιν κριβῶs καθεξης σοι γράψαι, κράτιστε Θειφιλε.

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ΤΗΕ ΝΕ EST, ENT RATIONALE 25 o Hi aut anil ordes in re lard to the breui and the cupresi euti Vely, i the Same in all. The rationale o thoorigina Eucharist a described in eaeli account is identicat. In Spite o differendos o dotat there is complete uniformit Oi Structure MoreOVer, the Variation of theseparallel narrative are comparativel stigii an do ut Serve to bring ut more clearly the picture o what Christdii and alii pon that ver memorabie OceaSion. The

2 An et upon tho par o Christ, deserit,ed by two

brande irae, Thi do e . . . in remembrance of e. V

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a commission to do fiat He had done. In ther orcis, the doctarations , This is My Body, ' etc., This is My Blood,' etc., were O made exceptis the distributionos ach consecrate element, and this distribution didnot ake lae unti alter Christ 's et oi thanksgiving-blesSing. V e may thereiore reaSonabi conclude that Christ consecrated the elements bymis actis prayer o God

umio lipaven irstiles an consecrate so the enclles good os aligonerations ill the worlo' on the hosen elements of hrea and wine, hieli element maderio ever the instruments os lis by virtuo of his divino benediction, ' etc.

tho express orct recorde in Hol Scripture. Post panis, vinique benedictionem, se suum sesius CorPUS illi praebere, ac suum sanguinem, disertis et perspicui Verbis teStatus est. Canones, et Decreta Sacrosancti Oecumenici, et Generalis Concilii Pridentini, etc., Romae, 564 P. 2.

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ΤHE NEW TESTAMENT RATIONAL 27 aside the rationale and Sequenceis hoSe aut commandedio e solio sed a mado nown to iis roni the fourioidwitnes of the e Testament. There is an irresisti blelogici plain iste in the simple, almos bare narrative os the Evangelist and S. Paul that ut at the oot os allthos subitetios invented in the later Middie Age in orderio justity a notion o Eucharisti consecration into hichwesturn Christendo ni ad driste l. I cannotio insiste l

p. 163, note 1. The note on εὐχαριστία - εὐχαριστεῖν in th Sume

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28 HE CONSECRATION OF THE EUCHARIST thanksgiving V is tho culmination an erown i thernote orth similar et On Christ ' part namely, in the paedagogi miracles of the feodirigit thessive thousarid, ando the ou thousand Christ in His ueharistio ossering

See Apponclix, p. 247 248. Cf. Sophocles, Gree Lexico of the Roman and Byzantine

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1 Cor. X. 16: ὁ ποτήριον τῆς ευλογίας ὁ εὐλογοῖμεν, οὐχὶ κοινωνία

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30 THE CONSECRATION O THE EUCHARISTimpossibi to escape the emphaSi put upon the lessingor conSecrationi the cup, hieli causes it tot edom the communionii thoiloo o Christ. V i th Eucharistiobrua it is postulate i similarly that a broken sor distribution it is the communion o the od o Christ, 'thus involviniit consecration prior o iis heing ministeredio the communi tantS.

eaecellen e in the Chureli ' colobration O her prope Sacrifice, a lenture moreover, that had been o prominent an