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 solution of them; they are seen to act quite contrariwise.-With one voice they address to God, with great impiety, the language: How can this man give us his flesh to eat ? and they reflected not that nothing is impossible with God.-But if thou, O Jew, continuest yet to urge this How, I will in like manner ask thee how the rod of Moses was changed into a serpent; how the waters were changed into the nature of blood ?—Wherefore, it would have much more become you to believe Christ, and humbly to ask of him whatever seemed difficult, than sottishly to exclaim: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Do you not see that when such language is uttered, great arrogance is manifested For our parts, let us derive great instruction from the iniquity of others; and cherishing a firm faith on these mysteries, let us never, on so sublime a point, in words express, or in thoughts entertain this How.—Com. in Joan. Lib. iv. c.13. p. 199. Basil. 1566.

COUNCIL OF EPHESUS, G.C.-The following extracts are from an epistle of St. Cyril, and an Egyptian Synod, read in the general Council of Ephesus, in 431, and approved by the Council, as conveying the belief of the universal Church. They write to the heresiarch Nestorius.—“On this occasion it is our duty to add, that while we announce the death of Jesus, the only Son of God, and his resurrection from the dead, and his ascension into heaven, we likewise celebrate the unbloody sacrifice in the churches, approach to the mystic thanksgivings, and are thus sanctified, being made partakers of the sacred flesh and precious blood of Christ, the Saviour of us all. For we receive it not as common flesh: far be this thought from us : nor as the flesh of a sanctified man, and united to the Word by an equality of honour, or as having obtained a divine inhabitation; but we