# The Fourth Letter Of Jacob The Chandler, Written To His Children; Being Properly A Confession Of His Faith. · Page 5 of 8

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Thus the bread is not his body, though Christ so
calls it; but it is a memorial of his body, which he
has given for us. For Christ said to his disciples:
He that receiveth you receiveth me. Matt. 10:40.
And he also says: Whosoever shall receive such a
child in my name receiveth me. Luke 9:48. These
words must not be so understood, that they receive
Christ bodily; but they that received such a child or
his disciples, did virtually as much as though they
had received Christ; for they were his messengers,
and they received them in his name. Paul also says
that the Israelites drank of that spiritual Rock that
followed them, which Rock was Christ (1 Cor. 10:4);
though Moses with his rod did not smite Christ, but
a stone, which signified Christ (Ex. 17:6). For as
through the smiting with Moses’ rod water ran out
of the stone, so that the Israelites drank; so God
the Father by his power caused the water of eternal
life to flow, to give drink to the spiritual Israelites;
hence he says: which Rock was Christ. They also,
he says, did eat the same spiritual meat; though
they yet ate only the figurative heavenly bread in
the wilderness; but God gave us the true bread from
heaven (John 6:50), which is Christ, of which the
bread which the Israelites ate was a figure. Therefore
Paul writes: They did all eat the same spiritual
meat. 1 Cor. 10:3. Christ and his apostles were
wont to call the signs and figures as though they
were the substance, as in the case of the two wives
(Gal. 4:24): Which things are an allegory; for
these are the two covenants; though the wives were
not the covenants, but they signify the covenants.

So one is also not to understand, that the bread
is the body of Christ; else the cup must also be the
testament, and the wine his blood, which is not so,
but they are only symbols by which his body, and
his blood, which was shed on the tree of the cross,
are to be remembered. Hence Christ says: This do
in remembrance of me.



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