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Originally Posted by faithful_servant
You're jumping ahead of me!! Take a look at John 6:51-57 and see if this passage takes on some new meaning. |
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In John 51 it states: I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Wesley doesn't think this has anything but a remote connection with the Lord's
Supper. ??
Barnes notes: The
same word which in Hebrew means
“bread,” in the Syriac and Arabic means also
“flesh.”
So it's not that far of a stretch to see the representation.
And it refers to --John 6: 33--For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Christ gave his body (in union with his deity?) as a free will sacrifice for sin to procure eternal life for his elect the world over (whether or not they be Jews or Gentiles).
In other words me.
