For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Why was this sacrament ordained at the time of the Passover? That we might learn that he is the giver of the law and that the things that are foreshadowed in the law are fulfilled in him. The Old Testament was a type of the things to come. He is the truth of those things. The Gospel of Matthew, Homily
