The sacrament of adoption may be called _adoption_: just as the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, which sacrament is in the consecrated bread and wine, we are wont to call _his body and blood_. NOT, INDEED, THAT THE BREAD IS PROPERLY HIS BODY, OR THAT THE WINE IS PROPERLY HIS BLOOD: but we so denominate them, because they contain the mystery (or sacrament) of his body and blood within themselves. Hence it was, that our Lord called the consecrated bread and wine, which he delivered to his disciples, _his own body and blood_. {20a} 13. Ephrem of Antioch flourished in the sixth century. The body of Christ, which is taken by the faithful, NEITHER DEPARTS FROM ITS SENSIBLE SUBSTANCE, on the one hand: nor remains separated from intellectual grace, on the other hand. And spiritual baptism, likewise, being whole and single, both retains the propriety of ITS SENSIBLE SUBSTANCE, I mean THE WATER: and loses not that, which it hath become. {20b} 14. The venerable Bede flourished in the eighth century. The Lord, in the Supper, gave to his disciples the FIGURE of his holy body and blood. {20c} 15. Amalar of Triers lived in the ninth century. (1.) Sacraments ought to have a certain SIMILITUDE of those things, whereof they are sacraments. Let us, therefore, say: that the officiating priest bears a SIMILITUDE to Christ, AS the bread and wine bear a SIMILITUDE to the body and blood of Christ. {20d} (2.) After a certain mode, the sacrament of the body of Christ is Christ’s body. For, unless sacraments had a certain SIMILITUDE of those things whereof they are sacraments, they would not be sacraments at all: but, FROM THIS VERY SIMILITUDE, THEY COMMONLY RECEIVE THE NAMES OF THE THINGS THEMSELVES. {21a} 16. Walafrid Strabo lived in the ninth century. Christ, in the Supper, which, before his betrayal, he had celebrated with his disciples after the solemnisation of the ancient Passover, delivered to the same disciples the sacraments of his body and blood IN THE SUBSTANCE OF BREAD AND WINE:—and taught them; that they ought to pass, from things CARNAL to things SPIRITUAL, from things EARTHLY to things HEAVENLY, from IMAGES to TRUTH. {21b} 17. Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mentz, lived in the ninth century. LATELY, indeed, SOME INDIVIDUALS, not thinking rightly concerning the sacrament of the body and blood of the Lord, have said: that _That very body and blood of the Lord_, _which was born from the Virgin Mary_, _in which the Lord himself suffered on the cross_, _and in the which he rose again from the sepulchre_, _is the same as that which is received from the altar_. IN OPPOSITION TO WHICH ERROR as far as lay in our power, writing to the Abbot Egilus, WE PROPOUNDED WHAT OUGHT TRULY TO BE BELIEVED CONCERNING THE BODY ITSELF. {21c} 18. Bertram of Corby lived in the ninth century.