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XXXVII.
Those who have become acquainted with the secondary
(i.e., under Christ) constitutions of the apostles,4868
| 4868 ταῖς δευτέραις
τῶν ἀποστόλων
διατάξεσι. Harvey
thinks that these words imply, “the formal constitution, which the
apostles, acting under the impulse of the Spirit, though still in a
secondary capacity, gave to the Church.” | are aware that
the Lord instituted a new oblation in the new covenant, according to [the
declaration of] Malachi the prophet. For, “from the rising of the
sun even to the setting my name has been glorified among the Gentiles,
and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure
sacrifice;”4869
as John also declares in the
Apocalypse: “The incense is the prayers of the saints.”4870
| 4870 Rev. v.
8. The same view of the eucharistic oblation, etc., is found
in book iv. chap. xvii.: as also in Justin Martyr; see Trypho,
cap. xli. supra in this volume. | Then again, Paul
exhorts us “to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”4871
And again, “Let us offer the sacrifice of
praise, that is, the fruit of the lips.”4872
Now those oblations are not according to the law, the handwriting
of which the Lord took away from the midst by cancelling it;4873
but they are according to the Spirit, for we
must worship God “in spirit and in truth.”4874
And therefore the oblation of the Eucharist is not a carnal one,
but a spiritual; and in this respect it is pure. For we make an oblation
to God of the bread and the cup of blessing, giving Him thanks in that He
has commanded the earth to bring forth these fruits for our nourishment.
And then, when we have perfected the oblation, we invoke the Holy Spirit,
that He may exhibit this sacrifice, both the bread the body of Christ,
and the cup the blood of Christ, in order that the receivers of these
antitypes4875
| 4875 Harvey explains
this word ἀντιτύπων as
meaning an “exact counterpart.” He refers to the word where
it occurs in Contra Hæreses, lib. i. chap. xxiv. (p. 349, this
vol.) as confirmatory of his view. | may obtain remission of
sins and life eternal. Those persons, then, who perform these oblations
in remembrance
of the Lord, do not fall in with Jewish
views, but, performing the service after a spiritual manner, they shall
be called sons of wisdom.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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