[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—My desire is to
answer your anonymous letter of March 12th in time spirit of Cor. xiii. A discussion is so apt to fall into argument which does no good. Surely the whole of St. John vi. is figurative. I have a very old copy of St. Augustine's Tractates on this chapter, in which he answers your remarks, and he certainly did not leave his puzzled dis- ciples without a simple explanation, for he says : " The flesh profiteth nothing ; it is the spirit which quickeneth." The passage you quote from St. Paul is a remarkable one, but we have several in the Hebrews which give a quite different idea, for instance : " Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us." (Het). ix. 24.) Also : " But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sat down at the right hand of God." (Hcb. x. 12.) I might also quote Col. iii. 1 : " If ye then be risen with Christ set your affection on things above not on the earth." The silence of all the Apostles in their epistles which have no mention of the Holy Communion is remarkable.—I am, Sir, &C., LUCHIELLA STRONG.
Moorhill, Westend, near Southampton.
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