[Bear_Slayer]

He was not lying. He spoke the absolute truth.

He was, of course, speaking figuratively.

[wideawake]

He was, of course, speaking figuratively.

"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."