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 spiritual sacrifices promised :—from this it follows, that, all these things being commanded to the Jewish people, the time would come, when they would cease, and the promise of a new law, with spiritual Sacrifices, and a new Testament, would take their place.” Adversus Judæos, c. 1, p. 138, 139.—The same he repeats against Marcion, L. ii. p. 679.–But it seems, rather, that he alludes principally to the pure sacrifices of the heart, and not to the establishment of a real sacrificial offering. In other parts of his works, however, I meet with expressions which evidently pertain to a Sacrifice,-such as altars, offerings for the dead, the duty of Priests to offer, and annual oblation of husbands and wives for their departed consorts.

St. CYPRIAN, L. C. Writing to the clergy and people of a certain district in Africa, he laments that, contrary to an established rule, a brother clergyman had been appointed, by will, an executor or guardian, when it was the sole duty of the ministers of the gospel “ to attend to the altar and Sacrifices,®) and to prayers and supplications.” Such likewise, he observes, was the view of the Almighty in the establishment by Moses of the Levitical order, and then adds : “ The same disposition holds good now, that they who are promoted by clerical ordination, be not called away from the service of God, nor perplexed by worldly business; but, receiving aliment from their brethren, they withdraw not from the altar and from Sacrifices,") day and night intent on heavenly things.”—He next remarks, that, in a case like this, it had been decreed, that for no brother, who by will had made such a disposition," any offering should be made,