Views During the Second Period (300-750 A.D.): The Doctrine of the Church (28): The Lord’s Supper

VIEWS DURING THE SECOND PERIOD (300-750 A.D.) Marcarius the Elder, a gifted representative of the earlier Greek mysticism (died in the year 390), belongs to the same symbolical school; he calls bread and wine the antitype of the body and blood of Christ, and seems to know only a spiritual eating of the flesh of the Lord. VIEWS DURING THE SECOND PERIOD (300-750 A.D.) Marcarius the Elder, a gifted representative of the earlier Greek mysticism (died in the year 390), belongs to the same...