St. Paul and the mystery religions / by H. A. A. Kennedy.

  • Harry Kennedy
Date:
[pref. 1913]
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    SACBAMENTAL MEALS The evidence regarding Sacramental Meals in the Mystery-Religions is both meagre and diffi¬ cult to interpret. Conclusions have been drawn from one or two mystic formulae which go be¬ yond the data. Thus, e.g., the Eleusinian frag¬ ment preserved by Clement of Alexandria :1 “ I fasted, I drank the KVKecov,” has been explained of a sacrament in which the initiated drank of the same cup as the goddess Demeter in her sorrow. This is indeed an attractive hypothesis, but it can be nothing more. A similar explana¬ tion has been given of the formula handed down by Firmicus Maternus2 and (with variations) by Clement :3 “I have eaten out of the tvuttolvov, I have drunk out of the KVfjL/3a\ov, I have become an initiate of Attis ” It is quite possible that *Ed. Stahlin, i., p. 16, 18. 2 Ed. Ziegler, p. 43, 17. (256) / 3 i., p. 13, 10.
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