Philip Schaff

“ He calls “the Synaxis” Shudderful (to borrow a word from the Germans) , because the unworthy recipient, in the Synaxis, eats and drinks his own condemnation. [2] One must ever be on his guard against the subtlety which reads into the Fathers modern ideas under ancient phrases. ”

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(The God-bearing Mary, p. 242.)
“This name” (θεοτόκος) , says Pearson, “was first in use in the Greek Church, which, delighting in the happy compositions of that language, so called the Blessed Virgin; from which the Latins, in imitation, styled her Virginem Deiparam,” etc....Yet those ancient Greeks which call the Virgin θεοτόκος, did not call her μητέρα τοῦ Θεοῦ, “Mother of God.” ”