Sermon to the Newly Baptized (Ante 373 AD):
[Quoted by St. Eutyches, Patriarch of Constantinople (+ 582 AD) in his Sermo
de Paschate et de Sacrosancta Eucharistia]
“Let us approach the celebration of the mysteries. This bread and this wine, so as
long as the prayers and supplications have not taken place, remain simply what
they are. But after the great prayers and holy supplications have been sent forth,
the Word comes down into the bread and wine - and thus is His Body confected.”
De Virginitate, in Le Museon (1958):
42: 243-244
“But since she was a virgin, and was his Mother, he gave her as a mother to his
disciple, even though she was not really John’s mother, because of his great purity
of understanding and because of her untouched virginity.”
Homily of the Papyrus of Turin, in Le Museon (1958):
71: 216
“O noble Virgin, truly you are greater than any other greatness. For who is your
equal in greatness, O dwelling place of God the Word? To whom among all
creatures shall I compare you, O Virgin? You are greater than them all O
Covenant, clothed with purity instead of gold! You are the Ark in which is found
the golden vessel containing the true manna, that is, the flesh in which divinity
resides.”
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