what are your views on the question of sacraments?

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By the bye, what are your views, now, on the question of sacraments?

* by the by/bye; incidentally; parenthetically.

To me that is the most puzzling side of the whole thing.

I need hardly say () I feel none of the materialistic difficulties:

but I feel strongly just the opposite ones

— i.e., I see (or think I see) so well a sense //in which all wine is the blood of God—or all matter, even, the body of God,

that I stumble /at the apparently special sense //in which this is claimed for the Host when consecrated.

George Macdonald observes that the good man should aim at reaching the state of mind //in which all meals are sacraments.

Now that is the sort of thing () I can understand:

but I find no connection between it and the explicit “sacrament” proprement dit [“properly so called”].

The Presbyterian method of sitting /at tables /munching actual slices of bread is clearly absurd under ordinary conditions:

but one can conceive a state of society //in which a real meal might be shared by a congregation /in such a way /as to be a sacrament /without ceasing to be also their actual dinner for that day. Possibly this was so in the very early Church.

초대 그리스도인들이 한 성찬 만찬식은 성찬을 떼는 거룩한 의식임과 동시에 실제로 그들의 저녁식사였다

aim at; 1. To point or guide an object, such as a weapon, at a target.

       2. To target a particular issue or goal. 3. To direct something at a specific person or group.

aim 이 타동사나 자동사 둘 다 쓰이기에 at 를 동사에 붙혀 타동사구를 만들던지

명사에 붙혀 전치사구를 만들던지 간에 의미상의 변화는 없다 본다

The Presbyterian method  of sitting /at tables /munching actual slice of bread~ 에서 sitting 은 전치사의 목적인 동명사이나

분사 munching 우물우물 먹는것은 앞 명사인 method 가 아니고

sitting 의 의미상의 주어는 일반인이라 그 일반적인 동작자가 분사의 동작자가 된다

From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II
Compiled in Words to Live By

The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume II: Family Letters 1905-1931. Copyright © 2004 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.