A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §416

Annotatio III §.III: SPECIALIOR ansa — Greek emphatic μεταβολή-terms for relative / mystic mutation, not substance

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§.III SPECIALIOR handle: Greek emphatic change-terms (metabole, metamorphosis, metapoiesis, metastoicheiosis, metatyposis, metarrhythmismos, metaskeuasis) for a mutation relative to the thing signified and mystic for communicants — cited via our Author, Salmasius, Johnston.

Fathers meant moral and schetic (relative) change; later readers bred a substantial-mutation opinion from those words.

Latin

§. III. SPECIALIOR Transsubstantiationi ansa data fuit per varios Patrum, maximè Græcorum ἐμφατικωτέρας, pro genio linguæ, excogitatos terminos, quibus in specie mutationem istam, relativam partim, respectu scil. rei signatæ, partim mysticam, respectu communicantium fidelium, pani Eucharistico per & post consecrationem copulatam, designare soliti sunt, quales Autori nostro observati recitantur p. 450 & 480 necnon Salmasio in Tractat. de Transsubst. p. 1. μεταβολή scil. μεταμόρφωσις, μεταποίησις, μεταστοιχείωσις, μετατύπωσις, μεταρρυθμισμός, μετασκεύασις; singuli præterea propriis suis Autoribus tribuuntur à Joh. Jonstono de Communione c. 3. p. 113. Hi termini de morali & σχετικῇ mutatione à Patribus intellecti, substantialis mutationis opinionem aliis, procedente tempore, ingenerarunt.

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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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