Q. Did Eustathius advocate the Roman dogma of transubstantiation?
Eustathius, Archbishop of Antioch (c. ?-360 A.D.):
…by bread and wine he refers prophetically to the antitypes of Christ’s bodily members. (Eustathius, on Proverbs 9.5 [Frg. 2 (PG 18, 684)]) see (J.N.D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines, [1968], p.441). Here
Alternate Translation:
'Eat my bread, and drink the wine which I have mingled for you.' Thus he [Eustathius] says: by bread and wine he announces the antitypes of the bodily members of Christ. But the other [Basil] drawing from the same foundation, as all know who reverence the mystic priesthood, in the prayer of the divine oblation thus says: With confidence we approach the holy altar, and setting forth the antitypes of the holy body and blood of Thy Christ, we beseech Thee, and pray Thee, etc. (J. P. Minge, Patrologiæ Cursus Completus, [1857], Patrologiæ Græcæ, Tomus XVIII, S. Eustathii Episcopi Antiocheni, Fragmenta II, In Illud Proverb. IX.5, Col. 684, 685). Here Trans. (J. H. Treat, The Catholic Faith; Or, Doctrines of the Church of Rome Contrary to Scripture and the Teaching of the Primitive Church, [1888], p. 221). Here
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