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 70 TRANaUBSTANTIATlOI(, [Boo II. ther, of his goodness, raised an from the dead."* These heretics denied the incarnation of Christ, therefore they thought it inconsisteut to receive the sacrament of the eucharist. What they denied was the incarnation, not the real presence. From these three quotations it is evident that Iguatius had no idea that the body and blood, soul and divini of our Lord Jesus Christ, existed under the a/arae..r of bread and wine. (:2.) Iren2us, in the second century, declares: "That cup, which is a creature, he confirmed to be his blood which was shed, whereby he increaseth our bodies. Therefore, when the mixed cup and the broken bread doth receive the word. of God, it is made the eucharist of the blood and body of Christ, whereby the substance of our flesh is in* creased and doth cousisC't "The bread which is from the earth, receiving the divine invocaxion, is now no longer common bread, but the eucharist, consisting of two things; the one earthly, the other hea. venly." He says that it is no longer common bread, because it is set apafi for a heavenly use; but the expression implies that it is still bread, and nothing else. (3.) Tertullian says: "The bread which he had taken and distributed to his disciples he made his body, by saying, ;This is my body,' thai is, the FIOUIB (4.) Justin Martyr. declares, when writing gs/nst Tryphon," fnit panis eucharistice, quem in recordat/onem passionis--facere cipit." "The bread of the eucharist was a figure, which Christ the Lord commanded to do in remembrance oF his passion." Justin in his second apology, says: "We are taught that the sanctified food where- with our blood and flesh are nourished by conversion is the flesh and blood of Jesus incarnate."The wnt'/o or change of bread and wine into our bodies can never agree with transubstantiation, unless our bodies be nourished by mere acc/dts, or by the real body and blood, soul and divinity of Christ, all of which is absurd and blaspha. mons. (5.) Origen declares: "There is in the New Testament a letter which killeth him that does not understand spiritually the things there said. For if you take this according to the letter, Eaw. ept ye eat my M_iad drink my &lood, TInS LSTT.a XLL.Ta."[ Again: "If, as the arcionites say, Christ had neither flesh nor blood, of what flesh, or of what blood did he, giving bread and the chalice as the mAOZS, com- mand his disciples, that made ?" In the dialogues against the Marcionitos, collected out t Advaru. Hmres., lib. v, c.  Idem, lib. iv, c. M. " Aoum   8tum du co mm um fik H l mm, &o,   eu  .". . M, lib. iv, c. .  "t e in Novo Tmmen mm qum cit eum qui n itual[ qum nmr vt. Si em cundum limm uaris N   m, et bie inem um, cidit hmc litre.  -- H. 7, in c, c. 5, t. vi, p. 128. 1
 * Epist. to the Stayreruns, No. 7.

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