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44. The first is about the Lord His body, and it is this, that,
knowing as we do that the head and the body that is, Christ and His
Church are sometimes indicated to us under one person (for it is not
in vain that it is said to believers, "Ye then are Abraham's
seed," when there is but one seed of Abraham, and that is
Christ), we need not be in a difficulty when a transition is made
from the head to the body or from the body to the head, and yet no
change made in the person spoken of. For a single person is
represented as saying, "He hath decked me as a bridegroom with
ornaments, and adorned me as a bride with jewels" and yet it is, of
course, a matter for; interpretation which of these two refers to the
head and Which to the body, that is, which to Christ and which to
the Church.
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