Here the bread and wine become by consecration tenements in which the Word is reincarnated, as he aforetime dwelled in flesh.

It was saved partly by the courage of his wife, Theodora, and partly by the timely prodigality of Narses, who stole out into the capital, and with large sums of money bribed the leaders of the "blue" faction, which was aforetime loyal to the emperor, to shout as of old "Justiniane Auguste to vincas."

Rival schools of thought sprang up, and controversy raged over it, as it had aforetime about the homoousion, or the two natures.

Here the bread and wine become by consecration tenements in which the Word is reincarnated, as he aforetime dwelled in flesh.

It was saved partly by the courage of his wife, Theodora, and partly by the timely prodigality of Narses, who stole out into the capital, and with large sums of money bribed the leaders of the "blue" faction, which was aforetime loyal to the emperor, to shout as of old "Justiniane Auguste to vincas."