Wherefore with all fear and a pure conscience and
certain faith let us draw near and it will assuredly be to us as we
believe, doubting nothing. Let us pay homage to it in all purity
both of soul and body: for it is twofold. Let us draw near
to it with an ardent desire, and with our hands held in the form of the
cross Cyril Hierosol.,
Cat. Mystag. 5; Chrys. Hom. 3 in Epist. ad Ephes.;
Trull. can. 101. let us receive the body of the Crucified
One: and let us apply our eyes and lips and brows and partake of
the divine coal, in order that the fire of the longing, that is in us,
with the additional heat derived from the coal may utterly consume our
sins and illumine our hearts, and that we may be inflamed and deified
by the participation in the divine fire. Isaiah saw the
coal Is. vi. 6.. But coal is not plain wood but
wood united with fire: in like manner also the bread of the
communion See Cyril
Alex. on Isaiah vi. is not plain
bread but bread united with divinity. But a body Vide Basil,
ibid. which is united with divinity is not
one nature, but has one nature belonging to the body and another
belonging to the divinity that is united to it, so that the compound is
not one nature but two.