Thursday, November 12, 2020

Macarius of Egypt and Transubstantiation

Q. Did Marcarius advocate the Roman dogma of transubstantiation?


Macarius, Monk of Egypt (c. 300-391 A.D.):

…and that in the church bread and wine should be offered, the symbol [ἀντίτυπον] of His flesh and blood, and that those who partake of the visible bread eat spiritually the flesh of the Lord, and that the apostles' and Christians receive the Paraclete, and are endued with power from on high, and are filled with the Godhead, and their souls mingled with the Holy Ghost. (Macarius, Homily xxvii. 17 [P.G. XXXIV: 705]) see (J. P. Minge, Patrologiæ Cursus Completus, [1860], Patrologiæ Græcæ, Tomus XXXIV, S. Marcarii Ægyptii, Homiliæ.—Hom. XXVII, Col. 705). Here Trans. (Fifty Spiritual Homilies of St. Macarius the Egyptian, Trans. Arthur James Mason, [London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1921], p. 209). Here



~ Soli Deo Gloria



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