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 trayed his Master, abode in Christ, and Christ in him, because, with the other Disciples, he partook of the first sacrament made by the hands of Christ himself? Shall we say, that they who eat and drink, with an hypocritical heart, or who afterward apostatise, abide in Christ, and he in them? There is a way of eating this flesh, and drinking this blood, of which it is true to say, that he who thus eats and drinks, abideth in Jesus Christ, and he in him.-To this way our Saviour directed his view.” Serm. lxxi. De Verbis Evang. Matt. c. xi. T. v. p. 391.-—“To abide in Christ, and to have him abiding in us, this is to eat that food, and drink that drink. Wherefore, he that abideth not in Christ, and has not Christ abiding in him, plainly eats not spiritually his flesh, nor drinks his blood; although carnally and visibly he press with his teeth the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ: he rather eats and drinks judgment to himself.” Tract. xxvi. in Evang. Joan. Pars 2. T. iii. p. 501.—“Our Saviour taught us this in mystic words--but many who were present, not understanding this, were scandalised; for hearing him, they thought of nothing but their own flesh. He therefore said: The flesh profiteth nothing, that is, it profiteth nothing, as they understood it; for they understood it to mean flesh as it is in a dead body, or as it is sold in the market, not as animated by life.” Tract. xxvii. Ib. p.503. -Speaking of his mother's death, he says: “She desired, that remembrance of her should be made at the altar: a service which, on no day, she had omitted; knowing that thence was dispensed the holy victim, by which the hand-writing against us had been blotted out.” L. ix. Confess. c. 13. T. 1. p. 170.

St. ISIDORE OF PELUSIUM, G. C.-Writing against Macedonius, he expresses himself as follows: “ Since in the in-