Doc. of Life (Dick) n. 40

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40. That good loves truth and wills to be conjoined with it, may also be illustrated by comparison with meat and drink, or with bread and wine; there must be the one as well as the other. Meat or bread alone does not suffice for nourishment in the body, but with water or wine; and therefore the one seeks and ardently desires the other. Moreover, by meat or bread in the Word, in the spiritual sense, is meant good, and by water and wine is meant truth.


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