1818 Jan y 28

Not Paul

III Doctrine

Ch Mysticism

5

§ Lord’s Supper

A bad thing wine unquestionably wine when drunk to excess, which however it can scarcely be without bringing after it if not with it its own punishment: a bad thing on any occasion: but why so excessively bad on this occasion so excessively bad as to doom a man to the very extreme of punishment? The answer―an / the / answer in Paul’s style has been already given. The man who on this occasion drinks the wine to excess drinks it unworthily: and he who in this way or in any other way on this same occasion drinks it ‘unworthily shall be guilty it should have been will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.’ Guilty says the English translation: more craftily because more ambiguously and less palpably absurdity / absurd / partaker easily improved / heightened / into accomplice says Paul’s original says the Greek original of Saint Paul he shall sometime or other be deemed construed and taken as an English lawyer would phrase / have / it to have been an accessory after the fact in the murder of the Lord Jesus. Instead of the office of Gamaliel had Paul been bred up in the King’s Bench Crown Office, he could not have got up a constructive murder in a more accomplished Common Law of England style.