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 the Jews, according to the rite of Aaron, consisted in the offerings of beasts, and this in mystery : as yet the sacrifice of the body and blood of the Lord was not, which the faithful understand, and they who have read the Gospel; which sacrifice is now diffused through the whole world.” Enarrat. i. in Psal. xxxiii. T. iv. p. 210.-“ Wherefore the sacrifice of Aaron was taken away; and that, according to the order of Melchisedec, commenced.--Our Lord was willing that our salvation should be in his body and blood. And this was an effect of his humility. For had he not been humble, he would not have been to us meat and drink." Ibid. p. 211.—“When, committing to us his body, he said : This is my body, Christ was held in his own hands. He bore that body in his hands." Ibid. p. 214.--" How was he borne in his hands ?” he asks in the next sermon on the same Psalm,-because when he gave his own body and blood, he took into his hands what the faithful know; and he bore himself in a certain manner, when he said, This is my body.” - "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, said the Psalmist to God. For the ancients, when as yet the true sacrifice was foretold in figures, celebrated the type of what was to come. Those sacrifices, therefore, signifying promises, were annulled: and what was given to complete those promises ? That body, which you know : which all