Gerhard and Walther

How could Christ have shown His love towards us more clearly than that He feeds us with His body and blood in the holy Supper? Where else is there a Shepherd who feeds His little lambs with His own flesh and blood? What is more noble in heaven and on earth than Christ’s body and blood which He assumed by His personal union?—Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis, I:105.

According to the testimony of the holy apostles, all believing Christians are priests and the whole Christian Church is the temple, the house of God, in which they serve under the only High Priest, Jesus Christ, who by His own blood once entered into the holy of holies, that is, heaven, and established an eternal redemption.—C. F. W. Walther, God Grant It!, p. 122.