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How can bodily eating and drinking do such great things?

It is not the eating and drinking that does this, but the words here written: ``Given and shed for you for the remission of sins.'' These words, along with the eating and drinking, are the main thing in the Sacrament; and whoever believes these words has exactly what they say, namely, the forgiveness of sins.



Jesse Jacobsen 2004-08-26