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Homily 25
Complete historical editorial footnotes. These notes retain the original edition’s wording; individual note authors are unspecified.
English translation and editorial credits: Sir George Prevost, M. B. Riddle.
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εχαριστα. [The translator has paraphrased the passage. Literally, “which are at every assembly (σναξιν), are called Eucharist.” There is no suggestion of “sacrifice” in the Greek at this point.—R.]
Editorial footnote · Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew, Homily 25, editorial note cite_note-16 · Original source
For this cause even the awful mysteries, so full of that great salvation, which are celebrated at every communion, are called a sacrifice of thanksgiving,because they are the commemoration of many benefits, and they signify the very sum of God’s care for us, and by all means they work upon us to be thankful. For if His being born of a virgin was a great miracle, and the evangelist said in amaze, “now all this was done;” His being also slain, what place shall we find for that? tell me. I mean, if to be born is called “all this;” to be crucified, and to pour forth His blood, and to give Himself to us for a spiritual feast and banquet,—what can that be called? Let us therefore give Him thanks continually, and let this precede both our words and our works.
[Here the word meaning “sacrifice” is used.—R.]
Editorial footnote · Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew, Homily 25, editorial note cite_note-17 · Original source
Wherefore, as you know, the priest also enjoins to give thanks for the world, for the former things, for the things that are now, for what hath been done to us before, for what shall befall us hereafter, when that sacrificeis set forth.