The holy Apostle Paul says, preserving the prophetic and truly ancient secret from which the teachings that were good were derived by the Greeks: \u201cHowbeit we speak wisdom among them who are perfect; but not the wisdom of this world, or of the princes of this world, that come to nought; but we speak the wisdom of God hidden in a mystery.\u201d Then proceeding, he thus inculcates the caution against the divulging of his words to the multitude in the following terms: \u201cAnd I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even to babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, not with meat: for ye were not yet able; neither are ye now able. For ye are yet carnal.\u201d<\/p>\n
If, then, \u201cthe milk\u201d is said by the apostle to belong to the babes, and \u201cmeat\u201d to be the food of the full-grown, milk will be understood to be catechetical instruction\u2014the first food, as it were, of the soul. And meat is the mystic contemplation; for this is the flesh and the blood of the Word, that is, the comprehension of the divine power and essence<\/strong>. \u201cTaste and see that the Lord is Christ,\u201d it is said. For so He imparts of Himself to those who partake of such food in a more spiritual manner; when now the soul nourishes itself, according to the truth-loving Plato. For the knowledge of the divine essence is the meat and drink of the divine Word.<\/strong> Wherefore also Plato says, in the second book of the Republic, \u201cIt is those that sacrifice not a sow, but some great and difficult sacrifice,\u201d who ought to inquire respecting God. And the apostle writes, \u201cChrist our passover was sacrificed for us;\u201d\u2014a sacrifice hard to procure, in truth, the Son of God consecrated for us. The holy Apostle Paul says, preserving the prophetic and truly ancient secret from which the teachings that were good were derived by the Greeks: \u201cHowbeit we speak wisdom among them who are perfect; but not the wisdom of this world, or of the princes of this world, that come to nought; but we speak the wisdom of God hidden in a mystery.\u201d Then proceeding, he thus inculcates the caution against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[66,73,125],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clement-of-alexandria","tag-eucharist","tag-food-of-the-soul","tag-sacrifice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":370,"url":"https:\/\/nemoslibrary.com\/patristics\/clement-of-alexandria-the-eucharist\/","url_meta":{"origin":676,"position":0},"title":"Clement Of Alexandria: The Eucharist","author":"Nemo","date":"February 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The natural, temperate, and necessary beverage, for the thirsty is water. 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\n— The Stromata, Bk. V. Ch.X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"