A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §365

Annotatio II §.II: Becanus’s personal/perichoretic union; In/Cum/Sub + Verborgen → Impanation suspicion

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Becanus (Manual Controv. II.2.2 p. 330) charges Luther with a personal, intimate, perichoretic union of body with bread.

Luther’s own speech feeds the suspicion: In, With, and Under this bread is my body, plus his hymn line hidden in the bread so small / He gave us His body to eat — ample handle for Impanation and Companation labels.

Latin

Posteriorem, Unionem scil. corporis Christi cum pane personalem, eoque intimam & perichoristicam, Lutherum inculcasse in duobus sensibus, prolixius exponit Becanus, Manual. Controv. lib. 2. cap. 2. quest. 2. p. 330. Et sanè vero Lutherus utriusque modi à se asserti, formulis suis loquendi, haud levem suspicionem genuerit, quando ex una parte, verba Christi, hoc est corpus meum, tùm in prosa oratione, per tres has particulas, In, Cum, & Sub hoc pane est corpus meum, tum in ligata Cantione à se composita: JEsus Christus unser Heyland &c. / per hunc rythmum, verborgen im Brod so klein / gab Er uns seinen Leib zu essen / explanavit, hancque suam Explanationem Impanationis & Companationis titulis gravandi ansam dedit amplissimam.

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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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