Bishop of Jerusalem whose Catechetical Lectures instruct the newly baptized; his Mystagogical Catecheses are among the earliest detailed witnesses to eucharistic faith and practice.
“Since then He Himself declared and said of the Bread, This is My Body, who shall dare to doubt any longer? And since He has Himself affirmed and said, This is My Blood, who shall ever hesitate, saying, that it is not His blood?”
“But these words may be more appropriately taken to refer to the hostile ranks of the evil spirits. For they were raging on the earth, when our Lord’s coming put them to flight, and restored those whom they had bound, to His obedience.”
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