...friend, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me " (Ps. xli. 9). The expression, " eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of man," occuring in John vi. 53-58, is evidently metaphorical. This appears from the context, and from the...

...for the Lord's supper, as it is for water baptism. It should never escape us that what we secure by eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man, we obtain by believing on Him. " He that believeth on me hath everlasting life — Zmiv attiviov."...

...them to preach to the Jews ....... 70 8. The discourse to the multitudes on "the Bread of life :" on eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of man 78, 79 9. The discourse reproving the Pharisees and Scribes for setting aside the commandment of God...

...through their own self-will.8 Is then this life self-supported ? No. It lives by heavenly bread, even by eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man who is in heaven ; living by Him, as the branch upon the vine, and as the vine upon its root, by the...

...John we find our Lord affirming that, without a certain inward and spiritual act (which He describes as "eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man ") we can have 710 life in us. And twelve months afterwards, on the evening before his death, we find...

...salvation. They do not know, or they never remember, that this belief was explained by Christ to consist in eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of man, - — than which anything more different from their own spiritual condition could not possibly be conceived....

...ordinance of his supper ; for many eat of that bread, and drink of that cup who do not live for ever by eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of man (Luke xiii. 26, 27). But he says (John vi. 54), Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath...

...life of the world, in which all who benefited by it would share — but personal fellowship with Him. Eating the Flesh and drinking the Blood of the Son of Man, such was the necessary condition of securing eternal life. It is impossible to mistake the primary...

...verses (53-571, and its hardness consisted in the fact that it pointed out one only way to life, — eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of man. These words the disciples did not spiritually comprehend, and therefore they were repelled by them....

...devotion to Himself which Christ required from His followers, and which He describes in vehement terms F as " eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man," is evidently something very different from a mere passive intellectual belief. To have faith in God...