Enrico Mazza compares this prayer with a portion of the eucharistic anaphora found in The Apostolic Tradition of St. Hippolytus, a manual of Church order that dates to the year 215: Remembering, therefore, his death and resurrection, we offer to you the bread and the chalice, giving you thanks that you have counted us worthy to stand before you and minister to you.86 The parallel between Polycarp’s prayer and the anaphora at this point suggests that there is some sense here that in its Eucharist