Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 17
“Temperamentum calicis:” on which Harvey remarks that “the mixture of water with the wine in the holy Eucharist was the universal practice of antiquity … the wine signifying the mystical Head of the Church, the water the body.” [Whatever the significance, it harmonizes with the Paschal chalice, and with 1 John v. 6, and St. John’s gospel John xix. 34, 35.]
And why did He acknowledge Himself to be the Son of man, if He had not gone through that birth which belongs to a human being? How, too, could He forgive us those sins for which we are answerable to our Maker and God? And how, again, supposing that He was not flesh, but was a man merely in appearance, could He have been crucified, and could blood and water have issued from His pierced side?4268 4268
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes x.xvii Pg 1.14
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 21
VERSE (24) - Joh 19:35 1Jo 1:1,2; 5:6 3Jo 1:12
