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Olevian used interchangeably two expressions to refer to the second sacrament: 'Lord's Supper (coena Domini) and 'holy eucharist' (sacra eucharistia) and distinguished it from baptism in several ways. First, it differs according to the outward form of the testimony. The Lord gave us two different signs to perform two different functions as an accommodation to 'our rudeness'. They also differ as to the 'internal degrees of fellowship' (internis gradibus Ko1vwv1m;;). Put sharply, baptism is about our union with Christ as 'bloody victim' (cruenta victima). The supper is a 'joyful celebration' (laeta celebratio) and strengthening of our Spiritual union with the resurrected Christ who 'intercedes for us' (pro nobis intercedente). Baptism was said to be distinct from the holy supper, in that the latter is a means of covenant renewal whereas the 'covenant and its eternal substance are begun in baptism'.