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faithful_servant · #10 (**permalink**) 06-27-2008, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

Sorry

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.

In the covenant ceremony, each party would feed the other from thier own plate. It was a symbol of a giving of life and a symbol of the person's flesh. The cermony was finalized by the parties giving each other bread and wine and stating "this is my flesh,..., this is my blood..." The parallel between what Jesus was saying and the covenant cermony is unmistakeable. Also, look at what the response was from the Jews. They were astounded that Jesus would enter into a covenant with them, it confused them. The idea of a sacrifice for sin wouldn't have confused them, it was a common occurance at the time. But to tell people that they had to be in covenant with Jesus in order to have a place in Heaven was completely outside of their realm of thinking.