Bible Encyclopedias
Medicamentum
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or MEDICINA CORPORIS ET MENTIS, a name occasionally found in the writings of the Church fathers as asynoiyme of our term" the Lord's Supper." Ignatius and others not unusually speak of "the medicine of immortality" "mediciie or preservative of the soul." See Riddle Christian Antiquities, p. 551.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Medicamentum'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/m/medicamentum.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.