14 February 2007

Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

Ponder especially here the wisdom of God. The Lord Christ took upon Himself flesh and blood from our nature. He exalted and embellished it in His personal union with divine, incomprehensible attributes. He now gives that back to us again in the Holy Supper so that our nature no longer need be distanced from Him; but, on the contrary, through this eating and drinking of the Supper we again have restored to us that which Adam had lost in his forbidden eating. - Johann Gerhard *An Explanation of the Sufferings and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ* pp. 40, 41

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