‹As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.›
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Comme le Père qui est vivant m'a envoyé, et que je vis par le Père, ainsi celui qui me mange vivra par moi.
KJV
‹As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.›
Hilary of Poitiers
Book on the Synods or the Faith of the Easterners
hey claim the same one received life from the Father, who also admits, I live because of the Father (John 6:57), as if the one who gives and the one who receives are the same: let them be condemned. The Son's essence is not unlike the Father's because He is His image. The distinc…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
sence; but unites us with Himself in this sacrament through the truth of His body and blood. Hence ( Jn. 6:57 ) he says: "He that eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, abideth in Me, and I in him." Hence this sacrament is the sign of supreme charity, and the uplifter of our hop…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
stication are seemingly of the same object. But it is Christ's true body that is eaten, according to Jn. 6:57 : "He that eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood." Therefore it is Christ's body that is broken and masticated: and hence it is said in the confession of Berengarius: "I…
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