Excerpt from The Growth of Sacrificial Ideas Connected With the Holy Eucharist: Read Before the Liverpool Clerical Society and Published at Its RequestBut it should not be forgotten that the first Christians, both Jews and Gentiles, were imbued with the idea and associa tions of sacrifice. And the same fact holds good with regard to the pagan philosophers and other prominent men who, in later times, submitted to Christi anity, and held high positions in the Church, as Athenagoras, Clement of Alex andria, Cyprian, and Ambrose. They had been accustomed to approach the Divinity by means of external sacrifice. When, therefore, the ancient forms were dis carded, the ancient name of sacrifice was applied to the new ways of approaching God. The word sacrifice was accordingly a common expression among Christians.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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