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THE EPISTLES OF CYPRIAM 21 Isaith is found righteons, and Hready is hiemed in satinsul Abraham, and is set forin as justified; as the blessed Apostis Paul proves, When hs sus, Abraham belleved God, and it
om stones, that is, are gathered frem the Gentilos. y Andwhen the Lord pratsed Zacchaeus, ΗΘ ansmered and said, This day is salvation como to this house, forasmuch as hoalso is a son of Abraham. In Genesis, therefore, that tho
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is mentione' What else is set fortii than the wino of tho cup
tho cup of the Lord might be foretoid by the propheta Who
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is cloven is a strohe of the spear in His passion ; Who also, admonishing What Was besore announced by the prophe cries and says, V any man thirat, let him come and drink. He that belleveth on me, as the Scripture salth, out of hisbelly shali floπ rivere os living Wator.' And that it might be more evident that the Lord is speahing there, not of tho
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appellation os Water, and that thus me ought to underatandit, since the Lord, When ΗΘ came, manifested the truth of baptism and the cup in commanding that that salthsul Water, the water os life eternal, should bo given to bellevera iubaptism, but, Daching by the example of Ηis oWn authori , stat the cup should bo mingled With a union os mino and water. For, taking the cup on the eve os His passion, He
no Wine in the cup, nor the Lord's sacrifice celebrated with a legitimato consecration unless our oblation and sacrifiea
respond to His passion. But hoW shail Wo drinh tho noπmine of the fruit of the vino with Christ in tho hingdom ofHis Father, is in tho sacrifico of God tho Father and of Christ we do not offer Wine, nor mix the cup of tho Lordis tho Lord's own tradition Τ10. Moreover, the blessed Apostle Paul, chosen and sent
brance of me. Aster the samo manner also He took the
But is it is both onjoinod by the Lord, and the fame ining is
confirmed and delivered by His aposite, that as osten as Medrin me do in remembrance of tho Lord the fame sting
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received, let him be anathema. ' 11. Since, then, netther tho apostlo himself nor an angelirom heaven can preach or teach any otherWiso than Christhas once taught and His apostles have announced, I mondervery much Whence has originaled this practice, stat, contraryto evangelicat and apostolicat discipline, water is offered in Eomo places in the Lord's cup, whicli mater by itasti cannot express the blood of Christ. Tho Holy Spirit also is notationi in tho Psalms on tho sacrament of this thing, When He mahes mention of the Lord's cup, and says, Thy in- toxicating cup, hoW excellent it is lV- Νow tho cup whichintoxicates is assuredly min ed With Wine, for Water cannot intoxicate anybody. And the cup of tho Lord in such miseinebriates, as Noe also was intoxicated drinking Wine, in Genesis. But bocauso the intoxication of the Loraes cup and Blood is not such as is the intoxication of the worlaea Mine,
vnderatanding of God; and in the fame Way, stat by that
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mmon mino sto mind is dissoluod, and the foui relaxed, and ali sadnem is laid aside, so, whon tho blood of the Lordand the cup os salvation have been drunk, the memory of thisiad man is laid aside, and thero arises an oblivion of tho
former moridly conversation, and the wrro fui and sad breast
retains the Lord's truth. 12. But hoW perverse and hoW contra it is, stat althoughthe Lord at the marriage made Wine os mater, me should mahe mater os mine, When even the sacrament of that thingought to admonish and instruct us rather to offer Wine insto sacrifices of tho Lordi For because among the JeWathere Was a Want of spiritual grace, Wine also WM Wanting. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts was tho house of Israel;
but Christ, when teaching and sho ing that the people of tho Gentiles aliould succoed them, and that by the merit of faithmo aliould subsequently attain to the placo whicli the Jewshad lost, of Water made Wine ; that is, ΗΕ sho ed that at thoma age os Christ and tho church. M tho Je s falled, thopeople of the nations should rather flow together and assemble: for tho divine Scriptura in the Apocalypso declares that tho maters signisy the people, saying, The waters which thousa est, upon Whicli the whore sitieth, aro peoples and multitudes, and nations of tho Gentiles, and longues,' which wo evidently see to be contained also in the sacrament of the cup. 13. For causo Christ boro us ali, in that He also bomour sins, Wε me that in the water is understood the people,
association and conjunction of water and wine is so mingled in tho Lord's cup, that that mixture cannot any more M Sep rated. Whence, moreoVer, nothing can separate the church
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Christ, in such a Way as in prevent their undivided lovo homalWays abiding and adhering. Τhus, thereiore, in consecratingste cup of the Lord, mater alonΘ cannot be offered, even asmine alone cannot be offered. For is any one offer Wine onintho blood of Christ is dissocialed from us; but is the waterbe alone, the peopte are dissocialed from Christ; but when both are mingled, and am joined Mith one another is a clos
union, there is completed a spiritual and heavenly sacrament. Thus the cup of the Lord is not indeed mater Hone, nor Winealone, uniem each be mingled Mith the other; just as, on thooster hand, tho body of the Lota cannot be flour Hone or mater alone, uniem both should bo united and joined togetherand compacted in the mass of one bread; in Which very
like manner as many grains, collected, and ground, and m edtogether into one mas' mahe one bread ; so in Christ, Who is the heavenly bre , we may kno that there is one bois, with .hicli our number is joined and united. 14. There is then no reason, dearest brother, sor any onato thinh that tho custom os certain persona is in bo solio ed, Who havo thought in timo past that water Hono fhould offerta in the cup of the Lord. For κε must inquiro Whomthey themselves havo follonia. For is in tho sacrifico Whicli
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For is Jesus Christ, our Lota and God, is Himself the chio priest of God the Father, and has fini offerod Himself a
sacrifice to the Father, and has commanded this to bo dono in commemoration of Himself, certainly that priest truly di charges the offico os Christ, who imitates that which Christdid; and lis then offers a true and fuit sacrifice in the churchio God the Father, When he proceeds to offer it according towhat lis seos Christ Himself is have offered. 15. But tho discipline os ali religion and truth is ove turned, unless What is spiritualty prescribed bo faithfullyObserved; unless indoed any one should fear in the morning sacrificos,' test by tho insto of wino ho fhould bo redolent of
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16. Does any one perchance flatter himself with this
notion, that although in the morning, Water alone is seen tobe offered, yet When Me come to supper We offer the min edcup But When me sup, Wo cannot cali the peoplo togetherto our banquet, so as to celebrate the truth of the sacrament in
celebrate tho resurrection of the Lois in the moming. 17. And becauso we mahe mention os His passion in ali
As osten, theretore, as We offer the cup in commemorationos tho Lord and of His passion, let us do what it is knowntho Lord did. Αnd tot this conclusion be reached, dearest brother: it from among our predecessors any have either is ignorance or simplici uot obseruod and hept this whicli tho Lord by His examplo and teaching has instructed us to do, he may, by tho mero of the Lord, have pardon granted tollis simplici . But we cannot be pardoned ino are noWadmonished and instructed by the Lord to offer tho cup of the Lota minglod with wine according to what the Lordollered, and to direct letters to ouo colleagues also a ut