Dissertation on the Most August Sacrament of the Lord's Body and Blood

Wisdom 5 The Book of Wisdom, or the Wisdom of Solomon, is a book of the Bible often used in the liturgy to describe the nature of divine light and understanding.. It illuminates and simultaneously inflames pious souls to perceive the divine goodness more sublimely and to love it with a more burning affection. If only all our adversaries, who are weighed down by the shadows of unbelief, would approach closer to this light and cry out with the great Augustine: Send forth your light and your truth (Psalm 42 original: "Emitte lucem tuam..." Psalm 42 in the Vulgate numbering corresponds to Psalm 43 in modern translations.). My God, enlighten my darkness (Psalm 17 original: "Deus meus illumina..." Vulgate Psalm 17 is modern Psalm 18.). You shine forth wonderfully from the eternal mountains (Psalm 75 original: "Illuminans tu mirabiliter..." Vulgate Psalm 75 is modern Psalm 76.). To what effect? You have flashed, he says in Book 10 of his Confessions, chapter 27, you have shone forth and driven away my blindness St. Augustine of Hippo (354–430 AD) was a foundational theologian; his "Confessions" is a landmark spiritual autobiography.. And to what fruit? They have led me and brought me to your holy mountain and into your tabernacles—which is to say, according to the interpretation of Jerome St. Jerome (c. 347–420 AD) was the primary translator of the Latin Vulgate Bible., into the Catholic Church through the Orthodox faith.

This is the primary aim ScopusThe author uses the Latinized Greek word "Scopus" to denote the "target" or ultimate goal of his scholarly work. of the present Dissertation: for it aims at nothing else than that, once dissensions are removed, the true Peace of Christ might unite our souls and recall everyone to that unity of faith and Christian life which Jesus Christ and His disciples so frequently and so gravely urged upon us. Therefore, I have turned my eyes and my heart before all else toward this most August In this context, "August" means majestic, venerable, or inspiring awe. Sacrament, which is the symbol of Christian unity, so that I might bring those who wander back to the bosom of the Church, and lead myself and the other faithful to a more burning love and veneration for this divine pledge of eternal salvation, and all people toward mutual peace and con-