4, de Trinit. , collected by Henschenius: also Leland'sCollections, published by Hearne, t. Gale, says he died fifty-seven years before the birth of St. Chrysostom's doctrine on the real presence ofthe body of Christ in the Eucharist, and on the sacrifice of the altar,in hunc librum, c.
Speaking on the holyeucharist, he says, that Christ gives us in it the same body which hedelivered to death for us, and that he refused not to present to Judasthe very blood which that traitor sold. This is followedby another joy, the adoration of the Magi; a new sorrow then arises; heis ordered to fly into a foreign unknown country, without help oracquaintance. Gregory was always a zealous asserter of the celibacy of the clergy, which law he extended also to subdeacons, who had before been ranked among the clergy of the Minor orders, (l. ity andpleasures; till, opening his eyes upon the remonstrances of certainpious friends, he distributed h
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