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nourishment for the soul; for Jehovah the Lord says in Moses, "Man doth not live by bread alone, but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live." Deut. viii. 3.

Now, because the body dies and the soul lives after death, it follows that spiritual nourishment is for eternal salvation. Who, then, does not see that these two kinds of nourishment are by no means to be confounded, and that if any one does confound them he cannot form any other ideas concerning the flesh and blood of the Lord and concerning bread and wine, than natural and sensual ones which are material, corporeal and carnal, which suffocate spiritual ideas concerning this most holy sacrament.

But if any one is so simple that he cannot think anything else from the understanding than what he sees with the eye, I advise him to think with himself concerning the Holy Supper, when he takes the bread and wine and hears them called the flesh and blood of the Lord, that it is the most holy thing of worship; and to remember the passion of Christ and his love for the salvation of man; for He says, "Do this in remembrance of me." Luke xxii. 19. And also, "The Son of Man hath come to give his life a ransom for many." Matt. xx. 28; Mark x. 4. "I lay down my life for the sheep." John x. 15, 17. (T. C. R. 709.)

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