Expository Lectures On the Heidelberg Catechism volume 2
Expository Lectures On the Heidelberg Catechism volume 2
George W George Washington Bethune
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1. The elements^ or the material signs. These are bread and wine. The bread, with which our Lord actually instituted the sacrament, being the bread of the Passover, was undoubtedly unleavened bread, which has, in ages past, led some to think that a careful conformity to our Lord's example should require us to use no other in our cele- brations of it. Indeed, there was a fierce dispute be- tween the scholastic doctors of the Roman church and the doctors of the Greek church on this point : the Gr...eeks calling the Latins opprobriously azymites (a, priv. , and C'^/Lt'?, leaven), because they consecrated unleavened bread, and the Latins retorting angrily on the Greeks for having departed from the primitive usage. The Latins were, however, by no means unanimous in this respect, for the schoolmen met with stout opponents from among their own communion ; and I believe the general sentiment of the Romish doctors is against the schoolmen. It is decided by learned men that the use of unleavened bread and wafers was unknown in the church, except among the heretical Ebionites, until the eleventh century at the earliest, the bread before that time beins: taken from the offerings of bread and wine brought bv the communicants for the use of the 270 THE SACRAMENT OF THE SUPPER : [Lect.
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