In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in his sight:
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
But you must not on this account suppose that on every mention of His body the term is only a metaphor, instead of meaning real flesh. For he says above that we are "reconciled in His body through death; "