The offering of fine flour, Gentlemen, I said, which was ordered to be offered on behalf of those who were being cleansed from leprosy, was a type of the bread of the Eucharist. For Jesus Christ our Lord ordered us to do this in remembrance of the suffering which He suffered on behalf of those who are being purged in soul from all iniquity, in order that we should at the same time give thanks to God for having created the world with all that is in it for man’s sake, and also for having set us free from the evil in which we had (hitherto) been, and for having destroyed the powers and the authorities Colossians 2:15 with a complete destruction by means of Him who became liable to suffering according to His will.
Wherefore God says thus concerning the sacrifices that were offered up by you at that time, speaking, as I said before, by Malachi, one of the Twelve: I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord, and your sacrifices will I not accept at your hands. Because from the rising of the sun unto the setting My name has been glorified among the nations, and in every place incense is being offered to My name, and a pure sacrifice, because great is My name among the nations, saith the Lord, but ye are profaning it.
He speaks at that time, so long beforehand, concerning the sacrifices that are being offered to Him in every place by us Gentiles, that is to say, the bread of the Eucharist and likewise the cup of the Eucharist, saying also that we glorify His name, but you profane it.
Further, the commandment of circumcision, commanding you to circumcise all infants on the eighth day without fail, was a type of the true circumcision, with which we were circumcised from error and wickedness, by Him who rose from the dead on the first day of the week, Jesus Christ our Lord. For the first day of the week, the first indeed of all the days that ever were, is further called the eighth according to the number of all the days of their cycle, and thus it ever remains the first.