that I will give, is my flesh for the life of the
world. Ver. 58. He that eateth me, the same also shall live by me. Ver.
59. He that eateth this bread, shall liver for ever.

6:55. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting
life: and I will raise him up in the last day.

6:56. For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.

6:57. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I
in him.

6:58. As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father: so he
that eateth me, the same also shall live by me.

6:59. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers
did eat manna and are dead. He that eateth this bread shall live for
ever.

6:60. These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum.

6:61. Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is
hard; and who can hear it?

6:62. But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this,
said to them: Doth this scandalize you?

6:63. If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was
before?

If then you shall see, etc... Christ by mentioning his ascension, by
this instance of his power and divinity, would confirm the truth of what
he had before asserted; and at the same time correct their gross
apprehension of eating his flesh, and drinking his blood, in a vulgar
and carnal manner, by letting them know he should take his whole body
living with him to heaven; and consequently not suffer it to be as they
supposed, divided, mangled, and consumed upon earth.

6:64. It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The
words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

The flesh profiteth nothing... Dead flesh separated from the spirit, in
the gross manner they supposed they were to eat his flesh, would profit
nothing. Neither doth man's flesh, that is to say, man's natural and
carnal apprehension, (which refuses to be subject to the spirit, and
words of Christ,) profit any thing. But it would be the height of
blasphemy, to say the living flesh of Christ (which we receive in the
blessed sacarament, with his spirit, that is, with his soul and
divinity) profiteth nothing. For if Christ's flesh had profitedus
nothing, he would never have taken flesh for us, nor died in us nothing,
he would never have taken flesh for us, nor died in the flesh for us.
Are spirit and life... By proposing to you a heavenly sacrament, in
which you shall re