A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §335

Annotatio I §.III cont: Passover instance applied to Hoc est corpus meum — same tropic hearing for the disciples

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Tighten the consequence by applying that Passover instance to This is my Body.

Christ was instituting the Supper right after Passover for disciples still raw in the divine mysteries.

He cannot have meant This bread is my body to be heard differently from This lamb is the passover / passage — especially with broken for you and This cup is the N.T. in my blood poured out for you — or else He would have spoken obscurely and opened John-14-style puzzles.

Latin

Adstringitur vis consequentiae si haec instantia ad Propositionem S. Coenae: Hoc est Corpus meum, applicetur, per id scil., quòd Christus S. Coenam immediàte post Pascha celebratum instituturus & commendaturus discipulis mysteriorum divinorum perquam ignaris, non potuit voluisse verba sua: Hoc, i. e. hic panis est corpus meum, aliter ab iis intelligi, quàm verba vixdum celebrati paschalis, Hoc, i. e. hic agnus est pascha seu transitus, ab iisdem intellecta hactenus erant, praesertim, cùm adderet Christus, quod pro vobis vel fractum est, vel frangitur, quôve sensu accipi debebat posterior propositio Christi Eucharistica: Hoc poculum est N. T. in sanguine meo qui pro vobis effunditur; Secus, & quodsi vel aliter intelligi verba sua à discipulis voluisse Christus, vel discipuli eadem aliter intellexissent, tam Christus iis admodum obscurè locutus fuisset, quam ipsis ansa suppeditata, ad miras quaestiones dilabendi, similes iis, quae leguntur Joh. cap. 14.

About this text

Samuel Strimesius — Prefatio through Controversiae Post Lutherum Controv. III-XIII + XV Tolerantia, Hexades Annotationum Prooemium and Annotatio I through Decem Theses / Francus plus Annotatio II §.I-§.VI and Annotatio III §.I–§.VII (through Cassellanum 1661) from Ingenua in Controversias Evangelicorum (Frankfurt an der Oder, 1708). Honest partial; Prefatio silence reasons, Annotatio III §.VIII+ fruits / §.IX+, Hexades theses body, deeper Controversiae / Part II remain.

English follows the locked 1708 Francofurti ad Viadrum Latin of Prefatio §I–II, Crimina defenses through III, Part I Protheoria through Controversiae Obices/Historia/Varii gradus, Formula Discord/Disparitas, Ulterius confirmatur / Classes / Formula protest / triplex differentia, Coena Domini Controversiae Priores through Precariae Hypotheses (Controv. print pp. 34–40), Controversiae Post Lutherum Natae Controv. III–XV tip (providence through De Tolerantia mutua; Controv. print pp. 40–78), Hexades Annotationum Prooemium H.I–§.III (Hexades print pp. 1–4 / PDF ~182–185), and Annotatio I De Augustana Confessione §.I–§.VIII tip (Hexades print pp. 5–24+ / PDF ~186–205+), reconstructed from Google Books PDF page images (ONB copy, id 3epYAAAAcAAJ) with pdftotext as check. No modern English was copied. Sister Halle digitization of Ingenua in Arminianismum (DOI 10.25673/65287) remains Anubis-blocked — skipped; Controversias only. Prefatio silence reasons, Annotatio I §.IX+, Hexades theses body beyond §.VIII, and remainder of Controversiae / folio remain.

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