Peter Bradley

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For just as the bread and wine of the Eucharist, before the invocation of the holy and worshipped Trinity, were simple bread and wine, but (after) the invocation the bread becomes the body of Christ and the wine the blood of Christ, so also it is the same way with those foods of the pomp of the devil. Being ordinary according to their own nature, they become desecrated by the invocation of the demons (cf. 1 Cor 10.20–21).
Lectures on the Christian Sacraments: The Procatechesis and the Five Mystagogical Catecheses Ascribed to St Cyril of Jerusalem (Greek and English Edition) ... Patristics) (Popular Patristics Series)
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