The doctrine of the real presence - 1883 Author:Edward Bouverie Pusey Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: contained under the species of those sensible things. For neither are these things mutually repugnant, that our Saviour Himself ever sitteth at the Right Hand of... more » the Father in Heaven, according to the natural mode of existing, and that, nevertheless, He be in many other places sacramentally present unto us in His own substance, by that manner of existing which, though we can scarcely express it in words, we yet can, by the understanding illuminated by faith, suppose, and ought most faithfully to believe, to be possible unto God." NOTE C. On p. 23. On the miracles of our Lord's passing through the closed tomb and the closed doors, after the resurrection, and His birth illaesa virginitate. a) It is plain from S. Matt. 28. 2—6, that our Lord was risen, before the angel descended from Heaven to roll away the stone. For the angel descended when the women were there, to tell them that our Lord " was risen, as he said." So S. Chry- sostom 1. S. Jerome2, " Let us not think that the angel came to open the tomb and roll back the stone for the Lord, rising again ; but, after the Lordhad risen, at the hour at which He willed, and which is known to no man, the angel pointed out what htid been; and by the rolling away of the stone and his own presence, he showed the empty tomb." S. Fulgentius, " If3 the angel descended not, would Christ not rise from the tomb ? or did the stone hinder the Lord, unless it were removed by the angel ? Yea, the Lord was risen, so that the angel was not needed. He was there in reverence, not to help." S. Fulgentius goes on to compare the two following miracles, as do Eusebius Gall.4, and the author of Ser1n. 163, in App. S. Aug. S. Greg, of Nyssa5, "The angel, having rolled away the stone, found the Lord risen, He having quitted, in a Divine manner, the ...« less