Priest. “Did not God say: ‘Take, eat; this is my body; and drink, this is my blood, and as often as you eat this bread, ye do shew the Lord’s death?’ ”
On this point we had much discussion. I then asked him whether he had read 1 Tim. 4?
Priest. “Yes.”
Thereupon I inquired as to whether he had brought a Testament with him.
Priest. “Yes, here is a Latin Testament.”
Adrian. “We have not studied in Latin universities, but in the highly celebrated school of the gospel, of which the Spirit of God is teacher.” John 16:13.
He said he could read it in Dutch. He then read the passage relating to the forbidding to marry, and the commanding to abstain from meats. 1 Timothy 4:3. I asked him concerning whom this was spoken. He replied that he did not know.
Adrian. “If you are a teacher you ought to know this?”
Priest. “It relates to the end of the world.”
Adrian. “It speaks there of the latter times; now do you mean to say that these are not the latter times?”