[8] This practice of the Greek church, at the first elevation of the elements, is what gives just offence both to the Roman and Reformed churches; for tho of late they have generally embraced the doctrine of transubstantiation, yet by this act they pay a divine worship to the bread and wine even before this pretended conversion into the body and blood of _Christ_. Not but that this observation may be well improved to evince the novelty of this persuasion among the Greeks; and to shew, that both these ceremonies were at first but a meer bodily respect to the elements, and implied nothing of a divine adoration. [9] To such as are not conceiv’d always worthy, or ready to communicate, the Greeks after the celebration of their _Liturgy_ distribute the ἀντίδωρον, or _bread barely blessed_, but not consecrated; which they conceive to be a symbol of the body of the _Virgin Mary_, and to be given instead of that of _Christ_. [10] _Nec pulcher Ganges, atque auro turbidus Hermus,_ _Laudibus Italiae certent._ Virg. Georg. ii. 137. [11] _Non illi satis est turbato sordidus auro_ _Hermus._ Mart. L. viii. Ep. 77. [12] Liv. Lib. xxxvii. cap. 37. _Circa Magnesiam, quae ad Sipylum est, posuit castra._ Idem cap. 44. _A Magnesia, quae ad Meandrum est, et ab Epheso legati ad dedendas urbes venerunt._ [13] Καταφέρεται δ’ ὁ Πακτωλὸς εἰς Ἑρμὸν, εἰς ὃν καὶ ὁ Ὕλλος ἐμβάλλει, νυνὶ Φρύγιος καλούμενος. Strabo, Lib. xiii. pag. 626. [14] _Magnesia ad Sipylum, a qua magnes lapis ferrum attrahens nomen sortitus est; ut idem a Lydia Lydius, et ab Heraclea Heraclius dictus est._ Hill _in Dionys. Periegesin_. Tho he seems to be mistaken in confounding this stone with the touchstone, or _lapis Lydius_. [15] Nat. Hist. Lib. xxxvi. cap. 16. [16] _Lapis hic ut ferrum ducere possit,_ _Quem magneta vocant patrio de nomine Graii,_ _Magnetum quia sit patriis in finibus ortus._ L. vi. ℣. 608. [17] _Auri argentique mentionem comitatur lapis, quem coticulam appellant; quondam non solitus inveniri nisi in flumine Tmolo, nunc vero passim; quem alii Lydium, alii Heraclium vocant._ Plin. Lib. xxxiii. cap. 8. [18] Like what _Aristides_ says: Ὁ φίλοινος οὐχ ἡγεῖται ζημίαν, εἰ μηδεὶς αὐτῷ πίνοντι συνείσεται. Orat. Platonic. prim. pag. 182. edit. P. Steph. [19] Liv. Lib. xxxvii. cap. 44. _Legati ab Thyatira et Magnesia ad Sipylum ad reddendas urbes venerunt_, says this historian, immediately after the action betwixt _Scipio_ and _Antiochus_. This action is at large described by _Appian_ as well as _Livy_, as happening betwixt _Thyatira_ and _Sardis_, upon the banks of the _Amnis Phrygius_, near _Magnesia ad Sipylum_; which is not the _Hermus_ (as some have thought) but a river running into the _Hermus_, which _Homer_ and _Herodotus_ call _Hyllus_, as _Strabo_ relates in the passage cited above, _p._ 9. [20] See _Marm. Oxon._ ed. ab H. Prid. pag. 1.