characterised by his carrying about in his visible human body a kind of replica of the death and resurrection of Jesus (4:10–11), whilst in the Eucharist the visible bread and wine associate believers in a wholly realistic way with the actual person of Christ (1 Cor 10:16).667 There could also be some form of inward vision, as will be suggested later. Through this continuous perception of Christ, believers are transformed ‘into the same image’.668 There has been no previous explicit reference to
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