Worthy and unworthy eating; pastoral severity (Chrysostom)
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Sacramental eating is to be distinguished according to its objects.Those who approach unworthily eat and drink judgment to themselves (1 Cor. 11:27-29).
Chrysostom terribly warns ministers not to provoke the Lord by failing to purge the body: I would sooner give up my life than give the Lord's body to anyone unworthily; I would rather have my blood poured out than grant that most sacred blood except to one who is worthy.Far worse than a demoniac is the one who approaches conscious of sin.
Latin
Manducatio sacramentalis secundum obiecta distinguenda est. Indigni accedentes iudicium sibi manducant & bibunt (1 Cor. 11:27-29). Chrysostomus horribiliter monet ministros ne Dominum irritent corpus non purgando: Animum prius tradam meam, quam dominicum alicui corpus indigne; sanguinemque meum effundi potius patiar, quam sacratissimum illum sanguinem praeter quam digno concedam. Multo daemoniaco peior est qui peccati sibi conscius accedit.