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 which shall be shed for many.-If then the bread that came down from heaven is the Lord's body, and if the wine, which he gave to his disciples, is his blood, which was shed for many for the remission of sins, let us reject those Jewish fables, and receive at his hand the cup of the new covenant. Moses gave us not the true bread, but our Lord Jesus did. He invites us to the feast, and is himself our meat: he eats with us, and we eat him. We drink his blood, and without him we cannot drink: we daily tread in the sacrifices the grapes that are red with his blood,' and of these is the new wine in the kingdom of the Father.” Ep.cl. ad Hedib. T.iv. Pars i. p. 171—“ The fatted calf, which is offered to obtain the salvation of repentance, is the Saviour himself, whose flesh we daily eat, and whose blood we daily drink. The reader, who is one of the faithful, understands as well as I do, what this nourishment is, which, filling us with abundance, makes us put forth outwardly praises and holy thanksgivings.—The sacred feast is daily celebrated ; the Father receiveth his Son every day; Jesus Christ is continually offered upon the altars." Ep. cxlvi. ad Damas. T. iv. Pars i. p. 155.-" There is as much difference between the loaves offered to God in the old law, and the body of Jesus Christ, as betwixt the shadow and the body, betwixt the image and the truth, and betwixt the types and the things they represent.-So let the mind, which prepares to form the body of Christ, be free from not only every unclean action, but from every indecent glance, every wandering of the mind." Comment. in ep. ad Tit. c. 1. T. iv.