A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §496

Annotatio IV §.III (3): Mode compatible with ascension — Athanasius draws from corporal intellect

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(3) The recommended presence must also stand with Christ’s bodily ascent into heaven (John 6:62) — so from the ascent one gathers spiritual presence on earth, not corporal.

Athanasius: He named the ascension to pull them off corporal intellect and teach His flesh as heavenly spiritual food. (Greek transliterated in Pass B.)

Latin

(3) Quia ista solummodò præsentia cum participatione corporis & sanguinis Christi commendatur, quæ etiam cum adscensu corporis Christi in cælum, probè consistere, quin ex adscensu corporis Christi in Cœlum, contra discipulos, manducationi carnis ejus & sanguinis, dum coram adhuc adesset, in terris intercedentes ac obluctati, evinci hisce Christi verbis poterat: Quid si igitur spectaveritis Filium Hominis adscendentem eo, ubi erat priùs? vers. 62. At non Corporalis in terris præsentia ex adscensu corporis Christi in Cœlum, sed Spiritualis tantùm, colligi demonstrarique in promptu erat. Proptereà adscensionis suæ meminit, inquit Athanasius: hina somatikēs ennoias autous aphelkysēi — eos, à corporali intellectu abstraheret & ut deinceps carnem suam cœlestem & spiritualem cibum esse discerent, Tom. I. tract. in illud: Qui dixerit verbum contra Spir. S.

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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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