7. Moreover, the things which are hung up at
idol festivals πανηγύρεσι. The Panegyris was strictly a religious festival, but was
commonly accompanied by a great fair or market, in which were sold not
only such things as the worshippers might need for their offerings,
e.g. frankincense, but also the flesh of the animals which had been
sacrificed. Cf. Dictionary of Greek and Rom. Antiq.
“Panegyris.” Tertull. Apolog. §
42: “We do not go to your spectacles: yet the
articles that are sold there, if I need them, I shall obtain more
readily at their proper places. We certainly buy no
frankincense.”, either meat or
bread, or other such things polluted by the invocation of the unclean
spirits, are reckoned in the pomp of the devil. For as the Bread
and Wine of the Eucharist before the invocation of the Holy and
Adorable Trinity were simple bread and wine, while after the invocation
the Bread becomes the Body of Christ, and the Wine the Blood of
Christ Compare St.
Paul’s argument against meats offered to idols, 1 Cor. x. 14–21: and on Cyril’s Eucharistic
doctrine, see notes on Cat. xxii., so in like manner
such meats belonging to the pomp of Satan, though in their own nature
simple, become profane by the invocation of the evil spirit.