The declaration of the 1672 Orthodox Synod of Jerusalem is quoted by J.M. Neale ("History of Eastern Church", Parker, Oxford and London, 1858) as follows: "When we use the word "metousiosis", we by no means think it explains the mode by which the bread and wine are converted into the Body and Blood of Christ, for this is altogether incomprehensible ... but we mean that the bread and wine are changed into the Body and Blood of the Lord, not figuratively or symbolically, nor by any extraordinary grace attached to them ... but ... the bread becomes verily and indeed and essentially the very true Body of the Lord, and the wine the very Blood of the Lord."