of the truth. The Scriptures would not have borne witness to these things
concerning Him, if, like everyone else, He were mere man.”
3, 22, 4
“(Eve) having become disobedient, was made the cause of death for herself and for
the whole human race; so also Mary, betrothed to a man but nevertheless still a
virgin, being obedient, was made the cause of salvation for herself and for the
whole human race...Thus, the knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed by the
obedience of Mary. What the virgin Eve had bound in unbelief, the Virgin Mary
loosed through faith.”
4, 17, 5
“He took that created thing, bread, and gave thanks and said, This is My Body.
And the cup likewise, which is part of that creation to which we belong, He
confessed to be His Blood, and taught the new oblation of the new covenant, which
the Church, receiving from the Apostles, offers to God throughout the
world…concerning which Malachy, among the twelve prophets thus spoke
beforehand: From the rising of the sun to the going down, My name is glorified
among the gentiles, and in every place incense is offered to My name and a pure
sacrifice…indicating in the plainest manner that in every place sacrifice shall be
offered to Him, and at that a pure one.”
4, 33, 2
“If the Lord were from other than the Father, how could He rightly take bread,
which is of the same creation as our own, and confess it to be His Body, and affirm
that the mixture in the cup is His Blood?”
5, 2, 2
“If the body be not saved, then, in fact, neither did the Lord redeem us with His
Blood; and neither is the cup of the Eucharist the partaking of His Blood nor is the
Bread which we break the partaking of His Body…He has declared the cup, a part
of creation, to be His own Blood, from which He causes our blood to flow; and the
bread, a part of creation, He has established as His own Body, from which gives
increase to our bodies.”
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