This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...than the disciples, who here are alone mentioned, inrep Vp,&v. I believe that, instead of the body of the paschal lamb of the Old Testament, He now gave them bread to eat from the same loaf, as the fittest emblem of Him, the true, that is, spiritual, bread come down from Heaven to give life unto the world. In like ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...than the disciples, who here are alone mentioned, inrep Vp,&v. I believe that, instead of the body of the paschal lamb of the Old Testament, He now gave them bread to eat from the same loaf, as the fittest emblem of Him, the true, that is, spiritual, bread come down from Heaven to give life unto the world. In like manner as He had just broken a loaf, and given " the old paschal bread of affliction" to His disciples, did He now give the new meaning of peace and reconciliation through His death, to the loaf He took as emblem of His body, which He brake in pieces or members of it, and told His disciples to eat, in token of their and our intimate life in Him; and through Him, one with another. 1 S. Matt, xxvi, 26; S. Mark, xiv, 23; S. Luke, xxii, 19; 1 Cor. xi, 24. Yet, as " the flesh profiteth nothing,"and "His words alone are spirit, and they are life," and since " if a man have not His Spirit he is none of His," I shall ever believe that this bread is in itself to us only a symbol of how we live by Him; He in us, and we in Him. As bread is the support of our bodies, so is He the food and support of our souls, always and at all times; but more particularly when, according to His institution, we eat the bread consecrated as especial means to remind us of Him dying and dead for us, do we commune with Him in spirit through faith; that is, we feed on Him spiritually. It is to us His body: not that we eat Him, Spirit, with our mouths; but our eating the bread represents to us visibly the spiritual act whereby "we feed on Him at the time, in our hearts, by faith with thanksgiving." There is in it nothing material: our intercourse with Him is wholly spiritual. In no other way can "His body" be so unders...
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