in heaven ? Matt. xxii. 29 (and for this reason the reader should by the way, but seriously, be reminded, that blood newly pro duced in the place of that which was shed, was never even dreamt of being ascribed by us to the risen Redeemer) : His glorified life does not require the circulation of the blood. The whole is of God, Rom. vi. 4, 10 ; 1 Cor. vi. 13, xv. 44, 50. Our body, our blood, are subject to corruption. What will happen in regard to our blood, I know not ; (even in the animal life itself we consider a very great loss of blood, provided life be not endangered, as a matter of less importance than the maiming of a finger or a joint :) The Saviour will certainly make the body conformable to His glorious body. Comp. Samml. von A. und N. 1739: I. Beytr. art. 8; Vales, philos. sacr., p. 81; Melch. I. 712. " We think it quite clear, that the battle fought by Michael, Rev. xii., did not take place immediately after Christ's ascension into heaven, whither THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB being introduced, took away the dragon's right to accuse." Pfajf- Syst. germ., p. 307 ; Heding. ad Hebr. ix. 24, x. 14 ; Kraft Nachr. I. Band, p. 878. The hole in the side (such as a deadly wound would be in the natural body) is the never-failing proof and ornament of His glorified life : Ezek. xxxvii. 67 8. The veins are not mentioned, but D"1^ are nerves or muscles.
§ 10. The state of the shed Hood very strongly confirms com munion in both kinds.
The defenders of communion in one kind have no more specious pretence than the concomitancy of the body and blood. But the relation of the body and of the blood of the Lord in the sacred Supper is most distinct [the footing or aspect of the one is quite distinct from that of the other]. First, He says, This is My body : then next, This is My blood. Therefore the body is not exhibited by the blood, but by itself; the blood is not exhibited by the body, but by itself. Lightfoot, in Chron. of the Old Testament, compares Gen. ix. 4 with this passage. But the language of Dannhawerus is much to the purpose, who writes as follows : " The blood of Jesos Christ, shed for His disciples and for many, is a heavenly thing, as it is drunk in the sacred Eucharist, and because it is incorruptible, it still exists, 1 Pet. i. 19, and was carried by Christ into the sanctuary not made with hands ; and yet (the blood spiritually received in the Eucharist)