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 rated at the Sacrifice, and it is then announced, that the sacrifice is offered for them.” De verbis Apostoli, Serm. clxxii. T. v. p. 827.-See other passages p. 239.

St. ISIDORE OF PELUSIUM, G. C.-" I exhort you to desist from doing these things, or not to approach the venerable altar.” Ep. xii. L. v. p. 556.—“Crimes acquire a deeper guilt from the place and time. For example; murder is always detestable; but it is more so, when committed in a sacred place; and still more wicked, if in the time of Sacrifice.” Ep. ccccxcii. p. 705.—“Either cease to be guilty of such crimes, or withdraw from the sacred table, that the children of the Church may safely approach to the sacred mysteries, without which they cannot be saved.” Ep. DLXIX. p. 723.

St. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA, G. C.-“ We offer in the Church a holy, vivifying, and unbloody Sacrifice; not believing it to be the common body and blood of man, but the real body and the real blood of the life-giving word. For common flesh cannot give life, which our Saviour himself attested, saying: It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing.” (John vi. 64.) Declar. Anathem. xi. T. vi. p. 156.—“God said plainly to the Jews, that they were not pleasing to him, or rather, that he would not accept their sacrifices in shadows and figures : but foretels, that his name shall be great among all nations, and that, in every place and nation, pure and unbloody Sacrifices shall be offered.”