You need to brush up on your history…as I have pointed out already on this thread, Augustine plainly stated that the command to"eat his flesh" is a figure…
Augustine on the Real Presence in the Eucharist
The following statements made by St. Augustine strongly support the opinion that He held to the true presence of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist:
That Bread which you see on the altar, having been sanctified by the word of God
IS THE BODY OF CHRIST. That chalice, or rather, what is in that chalice, having been sanctified by the word of God,
IS THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. Through that bread and wine the Lord Christ willed to commend
HIS BODY AND BLOOD, WHICH HE POURED OUT FOR US UNTO THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS. (Sermons 227)
Christ bore Himself in His hands, when He offered His body saying: “this is my body.”* (
Enarr. in Ps. 33
Sermo 1, 10; on p.377}*
Nobody eats this flesh without previously adoring it.* {
Enarr. in Ps. 98, 9; on p.387}*
[Referring to the sacrifice of Melchizedek (Gen 14:18 ff.)] The sacrifice appeared for the first time there which is now offered to God by Christians throughout the whole world. {City of God, 16, 22; on p.403}
He took flesh from the flesh of Mary…and gave us the same flesh to be eaten unto salvation…we do sin by not adoring.* {
Explanations of the Psalms, 98, 9; on p.20}*
Not all bread, but only that which receives the blessing of Christ, becomes Christ’s body. (Sermons, 234, 2; on p. 31)
What you see is the bread and the chalice . . . But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the Body of Christ and the chalice the Blood of Christ. (Sermons, 272; on p. 32)
Christ is both the priest, offering Himself, and Himself the Victim. He willed that the sacramental sign of this should be the daily sacrifice of the Church. (
City of God, 10, 20; on p. 99)
Not only is no one forbidden to take as food the Blood of this Sacrifice, rather, all who wish to possess life are exhorted to drink thereof. (
Questions of the Hepateuch, 3, 57; on p. 134)
The Sacrifice of our times is the Body and Blood of the Priest Himself . . . Recognize then in the Bread what hung upon the tree; in the chalice what flowed from His side. (
Sermo iii. 1-2; on p. 62)
The Blood they had previously shed they afterwards drank. (
Mai 26, 2; 86, 3; on p. 64)
Eat Christ, then; though eaten He yet lives, for when slain He rose from the dead. Nor do we divide Him into parts when we eat Him: though indeed this is done in the Sacrament, as the faithful well know when they eat the Flesh of Christ, for each receives his part, hence are those
parts called
graces. Yet though thus eaten
in parts He remains whole and entire; eaten
in parts in the Sacrament, He remains whole and entire in Heaven. (
Mai 129, 1; cf.
Sermon 131; on p. 65)
Out of hatred of Christ the crowd there shed Cyprian’s blood, but today a reverential multitude gathers to drink the Blood of Christ . . . this altar . . . whereon a Sacrifice is offered to God . . . (
Sermo 310, 2; cf.
City of God, 8, 27, 1; on p. 65)
He took into His hands what the faithful understand; He in some sort Bore Himself when He said:
This is My Body. (
Enarr. 1, 10 on Ps. 33; on p. 65)
The very first heresy was formulated when men said: “this saying is hard and who can bear it [Jn 6:60]?” (
Enarr. 1, 23 on Ps. 54; on p. 66)
Thou art the Priest, Thou the Victim, Thou the Offerer, Thou the Offering. (
Enarr. 1, 6 on Ps. 44; on p. 66)
Take, then, and eat the Body of Christ . . . You have read that, or at least heard it read, in the Gospels, but you were unaware that the Son of God was that Eucharist. (
Denis, 3, 3; on p. 66)
The entire Church observes the tradition delivered to us by the Fathers, namely, that for those who have died in the fellowship of the Body and Blood of Christ, prayer should be offered when they are commemorated at the actual Sacrifice in its proper place, and that we should call to mind that for them, too, that Sacrifice is offered. (
Sermo, 172, 2; 173, 1;
De Cura pro mortuis, 6;
De Anima et ejus Origine, 2, 21; on p. 69)
We do pray for the other dead of whom commemoration is made. Nor are the souls of the faithful departed cut off from the Church . . . Were it so, we should not make commemoration of them at the altar of God when we receive the Body of Christ. (
Sermo 159,1; cf. 284, 5; 285, 5; 297, 3;
City of God, 20, 9, 2; cf. 21,24; 22, 8; on p. 69)
It was the will of the Holy Spirit that out of reverence for such a Sacrament the Body of the Lord should enter the mouth of a Christian previous to any other food. (
Ep. 54, 8; on p. 71)
The Lord Jesus wanted those whose eyes were held lest they should recognize him, to recognize Him in the breaking of the bread [Luke 24:16,30-35]. The faithful know what I am saying. They know Christ in the breaking of the bread. For not all bread, but only that which receives the
blessing of Christ,
BECOMES CHRIST’S BODY. (Sermons 234:2)
