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 Comm. in c. 1. Malach. T. iii. p. 830.--See also the Epistle read at Ephesus, p. 248.--"On this occasion,” &c.

COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON, G. C.-In this Council the following complaint was read against Dioscorus, the Bishop of Alexandria: “So great was his audacity against all-not as became a Bishop, and a Bishop of so great a city, and of this evangelical Seewas not to permit the corn to be received, which our kind Emperors had granted to the Churches of Lybia, on account of the sterility of the province, and because no corn is grown in it. It was granted, in the first place, that, of it the unbloody Sacrifice might be offered ; and then that travellers and the poor inhabitants might be aided.–From this oppressive act it has happened, that the tremendous and unbloody Sacrifice has not been celebrated. ''Libellus Ischyrionis, &c. Conc. Gen. T. iv. p. 400.

THEODORET, G. C.-“Melchisedec was the Priest, not of the Jews, but of the Gentiles : and so Christ offered himself to God, not for the Jews only, but for all men. He opens his Priesthood in the night, when he took bread ; and blessing, broke, and gave it to them, and said: Take ye, this is my body, &c. (Matt. xxvi.) We read, that Melchisedec was a Priest and a King—the figure of the true Priest and Kingand that he offered to God, not animals, but bread and wine. For these he presented to Abraham, whilst in spirit he contemplated in the loins of the patriarch the true image of his Priesthood.--Christ is now the Priest, according to the flesh born of Judah, not himself offering, but being the Head of those that offer. For he calls the Church his body, and by this Church, as man, he exercises the priestly office, while, as God, he accepts the offerings that are made. The Church offers his body and blood.” In Psal. cix. v. 4. T. 1. p. 852.