‘They drank,’ he [Paul] said, ‘of the spiritual Rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.” Thus the bread, thus the drink. The rock was Christ in sign; the real Christ is in the Word and in flesh …. But this is what belongs to the virtue of the sacrament, not to the visible [...]
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St. Augustine: The Church as Sign
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