22. That the Jews would
lose while we should receive the bread and the cup of Christ and all
His grace, and that the new name of Christians should be blessed in the
earth.
In Isaiah: “Thus saith the Lord,
Behold, they who serve me shall eat, but ye shall be hungry:
behold, they who serve me shall drink, but ye shall be
thirsty:
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behold,
they who serve me shall rejoice, but ye shall be confounded; the Lord
shall slay you. But to those who serve me a new name shall be
named, which shall be blessed in the earth.”
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Also in the same place:
“Therefore shall He lift up an ensign to the nations which are
afar off, and He will draw them from the end of the earth; and, behold,
they shall come swiftly with lightness; they shall not hunger nor
thirst.”
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Also
in the same place: “Behold, therefore, the Ruler, the Lord
of Sabaoth, shall take away from Judah and from Jerusalem the healthy
man and the strong man, the strength of bread and the strength of
water.”
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Likewise
in the thirty-third Psalm: “O taste and see how sweet is
the Lord. Blessed is the man that hopeth in Him. Fear the
Lord God, all ye His saints: for there is no want to them that
fear Him. Rich men have wanted and have hungered; but they who
seek the Lord shall never want any good thing.”
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Moreover, in the Gospel according
to John, the Lord says: “I am the bread of life: he
that cometh to me shall not hunger, and he that trusteth in me shall
never thirst.”
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Likewise He saith in that
place: “If any one thirst, let him come and drink. He
that believeth on me, as the Scripture saith, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water.”
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Moreover, He says in the same
place: “Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and
drink His blood, ye shall have no life in you.”
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This
second clause, “Behold, they who serve me shall drink,” is
wanting in some editions.
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Isa. lxv.
13–15
.
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Isa. v. 26, 27
.
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Isa. iii. 1, 2
.
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Ps. xxxiv.
8–10
.
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John vi. 35
.
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John vii. 37, 38
.
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John vi. 53
.