Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsHebrews 1
English College of Douai–Rheims
Read Hebrews 1 in the BibleHebrews 1:6
Let all the Angels adore.
◦ The Heretics marvel that we adore Christ in the B. Sacrament, when they might learn by this place, that wheresoever his person is, there it ought to be adored both of men and Angels. And where they say it was not made present in the Sacrament nor instituted to be adored, we answer that no more was he incarnate purposely to be adored: but yet straight upon his descending from heaven, it was the duty both of Angels and all other creatures to adore him.
- ◦ The adoration of Christ in the B. Sacrament.
Original Douay–Rheims Annotations — English College of Douai–Rheims. CC0 1.0
Hebrews 1:3
The figure.
To be the figure of his substance, signifieth nothing else but that which S. Paul speaketh in other words to the Philippians c. 2. v. 6. that he is the form and most express resemblance of his Father's substance. So S. Ambrose and others expound it, and the Greek word [1] Character is very significant to that purpose. [2] Note also by this place, that the Son, though he be a figure of his Father's substance, is notwithstanding of the same substance. So Christ's body in the Sacrament and his mystical death and sacrifice in the same, though called a figure, image, or representation of Christ's visible body and sacrifice upon the Cross, yet may be and is the selfsame in substance.