the emblem of that gallows on which Christ had been executed for

denouncing just what was going on here. That these priests, who

imagined they were eating and drinking the body and blood of

Christ in the form of bread and wine, did in reality eat and

drink His flesh and His blood, but not as wine and bits of bread,

but by ensnaring "these little ones" with whom He identified

Himself, by depriving them of the greatest blessings and

submitting them to most cruel torments, and by hiding from men