passage refers, therefore, to the spiritual grace, and not to the outward sign—to the feeding upon our blessed Lord by faith, and not to the act of communion in the sacrament.

[13]  This is yet more evident in the Greek than in the English.  The word for chastisement is κρῖμα, that for final judgment κατάκριμα.  But the word in ver. 29 is κρῖμα, and the only verse in which κατάκριμα, or its equivalent verb occurs, is the latter part of the 32d.

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