A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §351

Annotatio I §.IV: Captivitate Babylonica + Paul — panis is participation; not in pane est

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In On the Babylonian Captivity Luther believes not only that Christ’s body is in the bread, but that the bread is Christ’s body — the Words keep him: This = this bread He took and broke.

Paul likewise: the bread we break is participation of Christ’s body — he does not say (NB.) it is in the bread, but the bread itself is that participation; common speech proves the demonstrative subject is bread when He says this is my body.

Latin

Tum in Libro de captivitate Babylonica, Credo inquit, firmiter non modo corpus Christi esse in pane, sed panem esse corpus Christi. Sic enim me servabunt Verba, ubi dicit: accepit panem, gratias agens fregit & dixit: accipite, manducate. Hoc, i. e. hic panis, quem acceperat & fregerat, est corpus meum. Et Paulus, nonne panis quem frangimus participatio corporis Christi est? non dicit (NB.) in pane est; sed ipse panis est participatio corporis Christi, & paulò post ipse usus loquendi & sensus communis probat subjectum sic monstrativum panis (NB.) dum dicit, hoc est corpus meum.

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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