I have a question.
Is this all about eating Jesus Body in The Lord's Supper, and having it actually be Him?
Christ’s Real body Not in the Eucharist
By John Wyclif (1324-1384)
Editor’s Note:
The reader will note that Wyclif does not quote the KJV, for there was no KJV in the 1300s. The Wyclif version is older than the KJV. The wise observer will note that while the words are not exactly the same, the sense is the same as in the KJV. Please note that John Wyclif believed in “wine” in the Lord's Supper. He wrote before the days of prohibition.
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“This is my body” (Matthew 26:26). Now understand ye the words of our Savior Christ, as He spake them one after another - as Christ spake them. For He took bread and blest, and yet what blest He? The Scripture saith not that Christ took the bread and blest it, or that He blest the bread which He had taken. Therefore it seemeth more that He blest His disciples and apostles, whom He had ordained witnesses of His passion; and in them He left His blest word, which is the bread of life, as it is written, “Not only in bread liveth man, but in every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Also Christ saith, “I am the bread of life that came down from heaven.” And Christ saith also in John, “The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.” Therefore it seemeth more that He blest His disciples, and also hisp. 122
apostles, in whom the bread of life was left more than in material bread, for the material bread hath an end. As it is written in the Gospel of Matthew 15: that Christ said, “All things that a man eateth go down into the belly, and are sent down into the draught;” but the blessing of Christ kept His disciples and apostles, both bodily and (ghostly) spiritual. As it is written, that none of them perished but the son of perdition, that the Scriptures might be fulfilled, and often the Scripture saith that Jesus took bread and brake it, and gave it to His disciples, and said, “Take ye, eat ye, this is my body that shall be given for you.” But He said not this bread is my body, or that bread should be given for the life of the world. For Christ saith, What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where He was before? “It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing.” Also Christ saith in the Gospel, “Verily, verily I say unto you except the wheat corn fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit.”
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[From Milburn Cockrell, Editor,
The Berea Baptist Banner newspaper, July 5, 2001, pp. 121-122, 124-125. Scanned and formatted by Jim Duvall.]