A knowledge of correspondences allows us to know what is meant by the Lord's flesh and blood, much the same as by bread and wine. This is that the Lord's flesh and the bread mean the Divine good of His love and also all the good of charity; and the Lord's blood and the wine mean the Divine truth of His wisdom and also all the truth of faith. Eating means making one's own.

Since at the present time the spiritual sense of the Word has 'been disclosed, and together with it the correspondences, since the correspondences are the means it employs, it will only be necessary to quote the passages in the Word which enable it to be clearly seen what is the meaning of flesh and blood, and of bread and wine, in the Holy Supper. But I shall preface these with a description of the institution of that sacrament by the Lord, and also with His teaching about His flesh and blood, and about bread and wine.