mon belief of the Reformed churches, the Bible teaches no such doctrine concerning the Lord’s Supper, as either of these several views of the passage supposes. 2. That there is not only no allusion to the Lord’s Sup- per in the whole context, but the terms here employed are never used in Scripture when treating of that ordinance. ‘‘ Body and blood” are the sacramental words always used, and never “ flesh and bones.” The reference is to the creation of woman and to the marriage relation, and not to the Eucharist.
Fifth ; The advocates of that philosophical form of theology of which Schleiermacher was the founder, understand the passage before us to teach that we are partakers of the theanthropic life of Christ. The lead- ing idea of that system, so far as the person of Christ is concerned, is the denial of all dualism. He has but one life. That life is not human, and not divine, but divine and human, or human made divine. Neither is there any dualism as to soul and body. These are the same life under different manifestations. To par- take of Christ, is to partake of his life. To partake of his life, is to partake of his theanthropic nature. To partake of his theanthropic nature, is to partake of his human, as well as of his divine nature; and to partake of his human nature is to partake of his body as well as of his soul and divinity. We partake of the theanthropic nature of Christ, as we partake of the corrupt human nature of Adam. The life of Adam is the general life of his race, manifested in the indi- viduals composing that race. The theanthropie life