“We say koinonia, and so it is, for through it we have koinonia with Christ and partake of His flesh and deity, but through it we also have koinonia [among ourselves] are united with one another. Since we receive of one bread, we all become one body of Christ and one blood, and members one of another. We are united in one body with Christ.”
John of Damascus
De fide orth., IV, 13: PG, 94, 1153a
quoted from Eucharist and Church Fellowship in the First Four Centuries, Werner Elert, p. 33
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