Justin Martyr
Patristic

Saint Justin Martyr

Apologist · Martyr
A.D. 100–165

Philosopher and Christian apologist; his First Apology, addressed to the Roman emperor, gives the earliest extended description of the Eucharist.

Justin Martyr · A.D. 100–165 A.D. 155
“For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh.”
The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus, First Apology, ch. 66 PD · ANF Vol. 1 (Roberts-Donaldson) ↗

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