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 of the teacher Celerinus.)" Ep. xxxiv.—“To God and his Christ, whom I serve, and to whom, with a pure and undefiled countenance, in persecution and in peace, I unceasingly offer Sacrifices." Ep. lxix. p. 124.—“ Whilst we were offering Sacrifice, the girl was brought in by her mother." De Lapsis, p. 189.

EUSEBIUS OF CÆSAREA, G. C. “ And as he (speaking of Melchisedec) who was the Priest of the Gentiles, seems never to have offered animal Sacrifices, but wine alone and bread, while he blessed Abraham; so our Saviour and Lord first, and then the Priests who are descended from him, performing, in all nations, according to ecclesiastical ordinances, the sacerdotal function, represent, in bread and wine, the mysteries of his body and salutary blood, which mysteries Melchisedec had so long before, by the divine Spirit, foreknown, and used in figure. The Scripture of Moses says: And Melchisedec, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine : and he was the Priest of the most high God: and he blessed Abraham.” (Gen. xiv.) Demonst. Evang. L. v. c. iii. p. 223. Coloniæ. 1688.—“ Since then, as the New Testament,” &c. ''See the passage, p. 215.

St. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM, G. C.--He mentions the various prayers and ceremonies which accompany our Sacrifice of the altar, and adds: “When this spiritual Sacrifice is ended, and this unbloody worship over the victim of propitiation, we supplicate God, for the common peace of the Churches, for the tranquillity of the world, for kings, for