{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/007/0070417.htm","path":"chr/ecf/007/0070417.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/007/0070417.htm","text":"1. Now concerning the Thanksgiving (Eucharist), thus give thanks. 2. First, concerning the p. 380 cup: 2455 We thank thee, our Father, for the holy vine of David Thy servant, 2456 which Thou madest known to us through Jesus Thy Servant; to Thee be the glory for ever. 3. And concerning the broken bread: 2457 We thank Thee, our Father, for the life and knowledge which Thou madest known to us through Jesus Thy Servant; to Thee be the glory for ever. 4. Even as this broken bread was scattered over the hills, 2458 and was gathered together and became one, so let Thy Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth into Thy kingdom; 2459 for Thine is the glory and the power through Jesus Christ for ever. 5. But let no one eat or drink of your Thanksgiving (Eucharist), but they who have been baptized into the name of the Lord; for concerning this also the Lord hath said, Give not that which is holy to the dogs. 2460\nThe eucharistic prayers of this and the following chapter are only partially reproduced in Apostolic Constitutions, vii. 25, 26; that of verse 2 has no parallel.\n380:2455\nThis is a variation from the order of the New Testament and of all liturgies: probably this led to its omission in Apostolic Constitutions. The word \u201cfor\u201d may be substituted for \u201cconcerning\u201d here and in verse 3. [Possibly a response for recipients.]\n380:2456\nPeculiar to this passage, but derived from a common scriptural figure and from the paschal formula. Comp. especially John xv. 1; Matt. xxvi. 29; Mark xiv. 25.\n380:2457\nThe word \u03ba\u03bb\u03ac\u03c3\u03bc\u03b1 is found in the accounts of the feeding of the multitude (Matt. xiv. 20, xv. 37, and parallels); it was naturally applied to the broken bread of the Eucharist.\n380:2458\nThis reference to \u201chills,\u201d or \u201cmountains,\u201d is used as an argument against the Egyptian origin of the Teaching.\n380:2459\nThis part of the verse is found in Apostolic Constitutions. Schaff properly calls attention to the distinction here made between \u201cThy Church\u201d and \u201cThy kingdom.\u201d\n380:2460","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VII: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles: Chapter IX.\u2014The Thanksgiving (Eucharist)","type":"page"}