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An expositio[n] upon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians…An expositio[n] vpon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians…
An expositio[n] upon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians by the reverend Father John Jewel ... ; whereunto is adjoined a very necessary table of the principal matters contained in this exposition.An expositio[n] vpon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians by the reuerend Father Iohn Ievvel ... ; vvhereunto is adioined a very necessarie table of the principal matters contained in this exposition.
London: printed by Ralfe Newberie, 1584
¶ The Second Epistle of the Apostle Saint Paul to the Thessalonians. › Chapter 2
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Again, Christ sayeth, Except ye •ate the 1flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you. The Jews heard him, but mistook his words. They did not understand his meaning. Therefore they said, This is an hard saying, who can abide the hearing of it? They reasoned among themselves how it might be, that either he could give them his flesh to eat: or, that th•y could take his mesh and eat it, or take his blood to drink it. ⟨p. 260⟩but when Jesus knew, that his Disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. Hereof Augustine saith, Acceperunt illud suulté, &c. They took 2the saying of Christ foolishly, they thought of it carnally, and imagined that the Lord would cut off small pieces from his body, and give it to them. Therefore they said, This saying is hard. They were hard, and not the saying. For, if they had been meek, and not hard, they would have said to themselves: this is not spoken without some cause: there is some mystery hidden under his words. And again he saith, Spiritualiter intelligite quae loquutus sum. 3Non hoc corpus, &c. Understand those things spiritually, which I have spoken unto. You shall not eat (with the mouth of your body) this body that you see, nor shall you drink that blood which they shall shed, that shall crucify me. I have commended unto you some sacrament: understand it spiritually, and it shall quicken you.
Againe, Christ saieth, Excepte yee •ate the 1flesh of the sonne of man, and drinke his bloud, you haue no life in you. The Iewes heard him, but mistooke his words. They did not vnderstand his meaning. Therefore they said, This is an hard saying, who can abide the hearing of it? They reasoned among thēselues how it might be, that either he could giue thē his flesh to eate: or, that thy could take his esh and eate it, or take his bloud to drinke it.