Suffered for Our Nourishment
No. 383
Corn must be first ground to powder before 'tis fit for our food. So Christ must first suffer very extremely, even to death, and a very dreadful death, before we can receive spiritual nourishment by him. The execution of God's wrath is compared to this very thing by Christ, viz. grinding to powder by a stone (Matthew 21:44). Hence meal is used as a type…
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