We are said to drink the blood of Christ not only when we receive it according to the right of the mysteries, but also when we receive his words, in which life dwells, as he said himself: ‘The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life’ (John 6.63).
ORIGEN Homilies on Numbers, 16,9
In truth, before Jesus, Scripture was like water, but since Jesus it has become for us the wine into which Jesus changed the water.
ORIGEN Commentary on St. John’s Gospel, 13,60
