[485:2] This calumny created much prejudice against them in the second century. See Justin Martyr's "Dialogue with Trypho," § 10; and the "Apology of Athenagoras," § 3. If Pliny refers to the Eucharist when he speaks of the early Christians as partaking of food together, it is obvious that they must then have communicated sitting, or in the posture in which they partook of their ordinary meals.
[485:3] Tertullian, "De Oratione," c. 14.
[485:4] See Euseb. vii. 9.
[485:5] Justin Martyr, "Apol." ii. 98; and Tertullian's "Apol." c. 39.
[486:1] Epist. lxiii. "To Caecilius," Opera, p. 229.
[486:2] Larroque's "History of the Eucharist," p. 35. London, 1684.
[486:3] Cyprian, "De Lapsis," Opera, pp. 375, 381. This was probably the result of carrying to excess a protest against the Montanist opposition to infant baptism. Such a reaction often occurs. It was now maintained that the Lord's Supper, as well as Baptism, should be administered to infants.
[486:4] At an earlier period it was dispensed in presence of the catechumens. See Bingham, iii. p. 380.
[486:5] "De Oratione Dominica," Opera, p. 421.
[487:1] See Kaye's "Tertullian," p. 357.