Excerpt from The Early Eucharist: A. D. 30-180 The Eucharist in the First Two Centuries, but no writer later than Irenaeus is used, and this has led to the change Of title. My plan has been to collect the Significant passages which were to be found in writers earlier than Irenaeus, as well as in Irenaeus himself. They are first analysed, and then combined to illustrate aspects of the Eucharist. The analysis has been revised before publication, and the synthesis added. The authorities are reproduced with translations, and attention has been strictly confined to them. The earliest citations are from the Gospels and S. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians; the latest are taken from Justin Martyr's Apologies and Irenaeus' work against Heresies. The beginning is thus made in Canonical Scripture; the end is reached in apologetic works addressed to the Pagan, the Jew and the Christian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.