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Heidelberg Catechism · Lord’s Day 28

Question 76

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What is it then to eat the crucified body, and drink the shed blood of Christ?

It is not only to embrace with a believing heart all the sufferings and death of Christ, and thereby to obtain the pardon of sin, and life eternal;a but also, besides that, to become more and more united to his sacred body, by the Holy Ghost, who dwells both in Christ and in us:b so that we, though Christ is in heavenc and we on earth, are notwithstanding “Flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone;”d and that we live, and are governed for ever by one spirit, as members of the same body are by one soul.e

Proofs

Each links to the Scripture index: what else cites the passage.

  1. aJohn 6:35, 40, 47–48, 50–51, 53–54
  2. bJohn 6:55–56
  3. cActs 3:21; 1:9–11; 1 Corinthians 11:26
  4. dEphesians 5:29–32; 1 Corinthians 6:15, 17, 19; 1 John 3:24
  5. eJohn 6:56–58; Ephesians 4:15–16

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