Note 649 — Lecture X. THE INFLUENCE OF THE MYSTERIES UPON CHRISTIAN USAGES.
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Origen, c. Cels. 3. 59. Persons who have partaken of the Eucharist are οἱ τελεσθέντες (Chrys. de compunct. ad Demet. 1. 6. i. p. 132), and οἱ μεμυημένοι (id. Hom. vi. de beat. Phil. c. 3. i. p. 498, and in Ep. ad Hebr. cap. x., Hom. xvii. 4, vol. xii. 169). Degrees and distinctions came to be recognized within the circle of the very initiated themselves, Apost. Const. vii. 44, viii. 13.