"My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink."
There is nothing, but nothing, figurative about that kind of talk.
The meaning of "is" as a poster above commented is "is."
In my thesaurus, "Clintonian" is an antonym for "New Testament."
74 posted on 02/25/2008 11:18:37 AM PST by wideawake
(Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)