. The
profanum
fell back on the heretics who had occasioned the necessity.
Ib.
p. 106.
"The oblation of a cake was a figure of the Eucharistical bread which the Lord commanded to do in remembrance of his passion." These are Justin's words in that place.
Justin Martyr could have meant no more, and the Greek construction means no more, than that the cake we offer is the representative, substitute, and
fac-simile
of the bread which Christ broke and delivered.
I find no necessary absurdity in Transubstantiation. For substance is but a notion