Ver. 64. The flesh profiteth nothing. Dead flesh separated form the spirit, in the gross manner they supposed they were to eat his flesh, would profit nothing. Neither doth man’s flesh, that is to say, man’s natural and carnal apprehension (which refuses to be subject to the spirit, and words of Christ) profit anything. But it would be the height of blasphemy, to say the living flesh of Christ (which we receive in the blessed sacrament, with his spirit, that is, with his soul and divinity) profiteth nothing. For if Christ’s flesh had profited us nothing, he would never have taken flesh for us, nor died in the flesh for us. (Francis X. Doyle, Defense of the Catholic Church: Combined with a Study of the Life of Christ Based on the Gospels [1927; repr., Pekin, Ind.: Refuge of Sinners Publishing, Inc., 2022], 469)
