Testimonia

Publiek archief van verzamelde en verwerkte bronrecords.
Overzicht / tekstblob

Tekstblob

sha256: e08b31dcc962113486562b31ad41b1b297c2da06d36a323364d7e58b14a25a2b · 1,253 tekens

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.

Alle records · Zoek op deze hash