body and blood in the Eucharist.15 In other words, “water and blood” points, at one and the same time, to Christ’s work of salvation and our reception of that work through the sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist. LIVING TRADITION St. Leo the Great on the Three Witnesses In his renowned Tome (449), St. Leo the Great quotes these verses from 1 John to uphold the full humanity of Christ and sees in them a reference to baptism and the Eucharist. Writing against anyone who would deny Christ’s full
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