at "as death had devoured all
human nature, he who is life, being in us by his flesh, might overcome
that tyrant." (Ibid. p. 272.) "Christ by his flesh, hides in us life and
a seed of immortality, which destroys in us all corruption," (Ibid. p.
363,) and "heals our diseases, assuaging the law of the flesh raging in
our members." (ibid. p. 365.) In the tenth look he is most diffusive and
clear on this sacrament, extolling its miraculous institution, the most
exalted of all God's mysteries, above our comprehension, and the
wonderful manner by which we are united and made one with him; not by
affection, but by natural participation; which he calls "a mixture, an
incorporation, a blending together; for as wax melted and mingled with
another piece of melted wax, makes one; so by partaking of his precious
body and blood, he is united in us, and we in him," &c. (L. 10, in Joan.
pp. 862, 863, item pp. 364, 365.) See the longer and clearer texts of
this doctrine in this book itself, and in the controversial writers upon
that subject. Also, in his works Against Nestorius, whom he confutes
from the blessed eucharist, proving Christ's humanity to be the humanity
of the divine Person. "This," says he, "I cannot but add in this place,
namely, that when we preach the death of the only begotten Son of God,
that is, of Jesus Christ, and his resurrection from the dead, and
confess his ascension into heaven, we celebrate the unbloody sacrifice
in the church, and do by this means approach the mystical benedictions,
and are sanctified, being made partakers of the sacred flesh and
precious blood of Christ, the Saviour of us all. And we do not receive
it as common flesh, ([Greek: me genoito],) God forbid; nor as the flesh
of man who is sanctified and joined to the Word by a unity of dignity,
or as having a divine habitation; but we receive it, as it is truly, the
life-giving and proper flesh of the Word." (Ep. ad Nestorium, de
Excommun. p. 72, t. 5, par. 2, and in Declaratione undecimi
Anathematismi, t. 6, p. 156.) In this latter place he speaks of it also
as a true sacrifice: "We perform in the churches the holy and
life-giving and unbloody sacrifice, believing the body which is placed,
and the precious blood to be made the very body and blood of the Word,
which gives life to all things, &c. He proves that it is only to be
offered in Catholic churches, in the only one house of Christ" (L. adv.
Anthropomorph. t. 6, p. 380.) He heard that some i