Hebrews 3:14

You have already been made partakers of the benefits of Christ, at your conversion and baptism, to the beginning of his substance, [2] by which seems to be understood the faith of Christ. (Witham) --- If to subsist in Jesus Christ, to be washed in his blood, to be animated with his spirit, to be nourished with his flesh, is but a sketch, a seed of that union with him which on a future day is to be effected, how comes it that we are so attached to this earth, how can we hazard for such a mere trifle such immense felicity?

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Initium substantiæ ejus, Greek: ten archen tes upostaseos. See Chap. xi. 1. Est fides sperandarum substantia rerum, Greek: elpizomenon upostasis.