Does not the eating and drinking mean to believe in the Body and Blood of Jesus?
If eating and drinking meant to believe, Jesus would not have said: “my flesh is a food indeed, and my blood is a drink indeed,” and He would not have said to the Jews: “Amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye shall not have life in you,” and the apostles would not have begun at once to bless, to break and to eat this bread. But Christ said: It is the spirit that giveth life, the flesh profiteth nothing. Eating the flesh of Jesus without faith profiteth nothing, but eating it with faith giveth life. At the last supper Jesus meant to say, this means my body, this means my blood. If Jesus had meant to say, this means my body, He would have said so, but He purposely said: this is my body, this is my blood. Long before the last supper Christ promised the people that He would give them His Body as a food indeed and His Blood as a drink indeed. If Christ had meant to say, this means my body, the Siriac language had at least forty words to expre
