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64 sanctified it, broke it and gave it to the holy disciples, saying, Take and eat, etc.’ Consider what I say: he did not say, ‘The Lord taking unleavened bread’, but bread. That on that occasion, no unleavened bread was used,—and that it was not the Passover,—and that the Lord was not then eating the Passover with his disciples, is probable from the fact, that the Jews’ Passover was eaten standing, which was not the case at Christ’s supper, as the Scripture says, ‘While they were lying down with the twelve’; also, ‘And the disciple lay upon his bosom at supper’. For when he himself says, ‘With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you’, he does not understand the Jews’ Passover, which he had often before eaten with them. Nor when he says, ‘This do in remembrance of me’, did he impose the necessity of doing as at the Jews’ Passover. Nor does he give them unleavened bread, but bread, when he says, ‘Behold the bread which I give you’; and likewise to Judas, ‘To whomsoever I shall give the bread when I have dipped it in the salt, he shall betray me’. But if ye argue, ‘we use unleavened bread in the sacrament, because in divine things there is no admixture of the earthly’, why then have ye forgotten divinity, and follow the rites of the Jews, walking in the heresy of Julian himself, of Mahomet, of Apollinarius, and Paul the Syrian, of Samosata, and Eutychius,