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(1868) [MARC] Author: Fredrika Bremer Translator: Emily Nonnen With: Charlotte Bremer
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LETTERS. . 207

God has prepared for those who are His own. The death
of a good person, has to me something beautiful in it, be-
cause I look upon death in the light of Christianity ; as
a transition from this to another life —for those who are
good to a higher existence. I do not wonder, dearest
Frances, that the doctrine of the atonement is still so often
obscure to you, for I know from my own experience how
deeply rooted in our mind are the notions which we have
been imbued with in childhood and in youth, and how
difficult it is to divest ourselves of them, notwithstanding
that they so often appear unsatisfactory and dark. I
wish that I could express my thoughts so that they found
an echo in your heart. I shall endeavor to do so, if you wish
it, when I have more leisure and peace. I shall now only
remark, with regard to the 6th chapter of the Gospel of
St. John, that Jesus himself divests his words of all ma-
terial interpretation, when in the 63d verse He says: “ is
the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing ; the
words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are
life.” Blood, in the Hebrew, and in many languages, is
equivalent to /ife ; bread signifies doctrine. Jesus represents
Himself here as the bread ar life, by His life as well as by
His doctrine. With everlasting life is here and everywhere
in the Scriptures not meant eternal life, with reference to
space of time (for even the wicked have thus eternal life),
but the real, full, blissful life ; in a word, God’s, the Héernal
life. Our Saviour says in this chapter: “The bread
(manna) which feedeth the body is not heavenly food, and
saves neither from spiritual nor from bodily death” (the
hardened sinner is said to be spiritually dead), “but I,
my life (blood,) my doctrine (bread,) am the true bread
which cometh down from heaven and giveth life.” This
new life (God’s life, eternal life) by which man gains
strength to overcome his evil passions, to become purer
and more loving, Jesus has grafted on the world (“I am
the vine and ye are the branches”) by His life, and His

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