Canon XXXVII.
(Greek xl.)
It is not lawful to offer anything in the Holy Mysteries
except bread and wine mixed with water.
In
the sacraments of the body
and blood of the Lord nothing else shall be offered than that which the
Lord himself ordained, that is to say, bread and wine mixed with
water. But let the first-fruits, whether honey or milk, be
offered on that one most solemn day, as is wont, in the mystery of the
infants. For although they are offered on the altar, let them
have nevertheless their own benediction, that they may be distinguished
from the sacraments of the Lord’s body and blood; neither let
there be offered as first-fruits anything other than grapes and
corns.
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of Canon
XXXVII.
Let bread and wine mixed with water only be offered.
The text of the Greek here does not exactly agree with
the Latin. The Greek reads as follows: “That in the
Holy Mysteries nothing else be offered than the body and blood of the
Lord, even as the Lord himself delivered, that is bread and wine mixed
with water.”
Further down with regard to the first-fruits I have
followed the Greek text which seems decidedly preferable, in fact the
Latin is so corrupt that Van Espen notes that for the ordinary
“
offerantur
” some
mss.
read
“
non offerantur
.”
This canon is Canon xxiij. of the Synod of Hippo,
a.d.
393.
Johnson.
See Can.
Ap. 2
(3).
“The Mystery of Infants” of this
Quære
, all that I have met with are in the dark as to this
matter. Dionysius Exiguus’s Latin is
Lac
, etc.
The Greek stands thus,
῎Ειτε ·γάλα
κ.τ.λ.