Eucharist

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Primary Sources

	Ambrose, On the Sacraments 4.3-5.3; 6.1.
	Ambrose, On the Mysteries 8.43-9.59
	Apostolic Constitutions 8.12-15.
	Augustine, Homolies on the Gospel of John 26.10-20; 27.11.
	Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 4.
	Clement of Alexandria, Who Is The Rich Man Who is Saved? 23.
	Cyprian, Letter 63.
	Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures 23.
	Didache, 9-10
	R.C.D. Casper & G.J. Cuming, Prayers of the Eucharist: Early and Reformed. Texts Translated and Edited with Commentary, 3rd edn. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1992. pp. ix + 314.
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	Hippolytus, Apostolic Tradition 4.
	Serapion, Prayerbook 1-2.

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