Eucharist as sacrifice
By the end of the fourth century, there is a strong sense in some writers that the worshipper at the Eucharist stands in the presence of Christ sacrificed. John Chrysostom, for example, speaks of ‘the most awesome sacrifice’ and of ‘the Lord sacrificed and lying there and the priest bending over the sacrifice and interceding.
- R. J. Halliburton, The Study of Liturgy, Pt 2, ch 3.7, “The Patristic Theology of the Eucharist”
