Can there be any proof of the Godhead of the Word made flesh to compare with that which has been the life of the living and the hope of the dying to sixty generations of men for eighteen centuries and a half? "For this is the chalice in My Blood of the new and everlasting testament, the mystery of faith, which shall be shed for you and for many, for the remission of sins." FOOTNOTES: [82] "A quibus traducem fidei et semina doctrinæ cæteræ exinde ecclesiæ mutuatæ sunt." _Tradux_, the vine branch carried along above the ground from the parent stem, so that there is but one tree. Tertullian, De Præscrip. Hæret. 20. [83] Franzelin, De Verbo Incarnato, p. 520. [84] Plato, Euthyphron, 14. [85] Nägelsbach, Homerische Theologie, 207; Id., Nachhomerische Theologie, 193. [86] The Banquet, p. 188 _e_. [87] Lasaulx, Die Sühnopfer (extracts from), pp. 234-270. [88] προηρόσια. [89] προχαριστήρια. [90] 3, 12. [91] Ruinart, Acta Martyrum, pp. 350 and 527. [92] Contr. Faustum, l. 22, s. 17, tom. viii. 370. [93] S. Tho. contr. Gentilis, 3, 120. [94] Agamemnon, 1520. [95] The above account of human sacrifices is drawn from Lasaulx's treatise, pp. 237-255. He gives a profusion of examples, with their references in ancient authors. [96] Luke xxii. 20; John vi. 52. [97] See Council of Trent, sess. 22, cap. i. [98] 1 Cor. xi. 26. [99] Acts ii. 46. [100] John iii. 16. [101] Council of Trent, sess. 22, cap. ii. [102] Justin. Apol. i. 66. [103] Franzelin, De SS. Eucharistiæ Sacramento et Sacrificio, p. 81. [104] Eusebius Cæs.: περὶ τῆς τοῦ Πάσχα ἑορτῆς, cap. 7. [105] Heb. ii. 12. [106] Franzelin, De SS. Eucharistiæ Sacramento, p. 111. [107] S. Chrys. Hom. in Joan, 46, c. 3, tom. viii. 272. [108] St. Aug. De Civitate Dei, lib. 10, c. 6 and 20. [109] S. Chrys. 16 Hom. on the Hebrews, tom. xii. p. 168. CHAPTER VI. THE ACTUAL RELATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE FROM THE DAY OF PENTECOST TO CONSTANTINE. _The Independence of the Ante-Nicene Church shown in her Organic Growth._