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to the bodies themselves, and would pass essentially into the real body of Christ itself, and conversely that would course within us: and then finally, in particular, because it would follow from that, that that power which is the maker of eternal life is subjectively in the flesh of Christ, and from there flows into us. Since, therefore, the benefit of Christ, true God and Man, bestowed upon us is in summary twofold: namely, Justification through the gratuitous remission of our sins, His Justice being imputed to us: and our Regeneration or Sanctification, leading us to that eternal beatitude or eternal life: Zwingli rightly asserted in the former passage which you cite, that the remission of sins, of which the Lord's Supper is also a token to everyone, does not flow from the substance of that flesh itself delivered for us, but from His obedience and sufferings endured in that flesh to expiate our sins: whence it follows that your essential manducation, even if it were done through faith, would be vain and useless. Thus, in the other benefit, namely our regeneration, which is understood by the name of vivification in that discourse of Christ, which is perfected by that everlasting and most blessed life, Zwingli likewise taught orthodoxly in the other passage you cite that it