22. And since I have inserted a clause in which
mention is made of the Lord’s Body, lest any one should be
troubled at reading that the Lord took a body of pain, let him remember
that the Lord grieved and wept
over the death of Lazarus, S. John xi. 35. and was wounded in His passion, and
that from the wound there went forth blood and water, S. John xix. 34. and that He gave up His Spirit.
Water for washing, Blood for drink, the Spirit for His rising
again. For Christ alone is to us hope, faith, and love—hope
in His resurrection, faith in the laver, and love in the
sacrament.