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 that is, in the Eucharist of bread and the chalice, which in all places of the earth are celebrated by the Christian people, God declares, that they are well pleasing to him. But the sacrifices of you Jews, and of your priests, he rejects, saying: I will accept no offering from your hands ; because from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same; my name is great among the Gentiles, but ye have profaned it. Malach. 1. But I myself say, that those prayers and thanksgivings are alone perfect, and the victims pleasing to God, which are offered by good men. These, Christians alone have learned to offer, in the commemoration of their dry and liquid food, (bread and wine) in which commemoration they are reminded of the passion which Christ suffered.” Dial. cum Tryphon. Judæo, p. 209.

ST. IRENÆUS, L. C. Giving advice to his disciples, to offer their first fruits to God, not as if he stood in need of them, but that they might not seem ungrateful, he took bread into his hands, and giving thanks, said: This is my body. Likewise he declared the cup to be his blood, and taught the new oblation of the New Testament, which oblation the Church receiving from the Apostles, offers it to God, over all the earth—to him who grants us food—the first fruits of his gifts in the New Testament, of which the Prophet Malachias spoke : I will not accept offerings from your hands. For from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a clean Sacrifice. (1.) Manifestly hereby signifying, that the first people (the Jews) will cease to offer to God; and that in every place, a Sacri-