Chapter 46

1Concerning that it is proper to guard the Mystery carefully. It is not seemly that any should be poured from the cup ; but everyone shall be most careful lest any beside believers receive of the Mystery ; and that none of it fall or be thrown away ; because it is the Body of Christ : and all believers shall eat of it, and it is not proper to neglect it : [because] it is not seemly that any should be poured from the cup ; because the cup was blessed in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that thou shouldst receive of it, because it is the Blood of Christ. But ye shall therefore take the greatest care that none of it be poured out or dropped, lest an alien spirit lick it up, and lest it should be that thou thyself should deny and despise the precious Blood of Christ, with which he redeemed thee, and became to thee the means of his mercy towards thee : and thou shalt be as having denied Christ If a little of his Body has fallen, or if (any) has dropped from the cup, thou shalt find judgment in that thing with which he redeemed thee.