Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

"Without the shedding of blood is no remission." The slaying of the victim by shedding its blood, by which alone its death could be effected, was properly the sacrifice. After the sacrifice was made, two things were essential to securing its end: first, that God should receive it; second that man should participate in it. The burning of the sacrifice by fire from heaven was the means of God's accepting on the one side; and eating of it, the means of man's participating on the other. The truth is, that the sacrifice of the Old Testament resolves itself into the very elements which we find in the Lord's Supper. The Altar was the Table of the Lord, and the whole conception of sacrifice runs into this, that it is a covenanting Supper between God and man. - C. P. Krauth *The Conservative Reformation* p. 591