A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §503

Annotatio IV §.IV: Third & Fourth — Israel’s altar and Gentile demons: real spiritual communion

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Third (v. 18): Israel’s sacrificers eating peace-offerings are partners of the altar with God — a spiritual, yet most real and substantial, communion.

Fourth (vv. 20–21): Gentile demon-sacrificers share the demons’ table — likewise spiritual, not corporal, yet real; Paul will not have us partners of demons.

Latin

Subjicitur Tertium Argumentum versu proximo 18. à Communione Israëlitarum sacrificantium & ex sacrificiis pacificis comedentium, cum ipso Deo ejusque Altari; Itemque Quartum vers. 20. & 21. à Communione Gentium, Dæmoniis immolantium & horum mensæ participantium, cum ipsis Dæmoniis, haustum, his Apostoli verbis: Cernite Israelem qui est secundum carnem: Nonne qui edunt victimas, consortes fiunt altaris? Imò verò dico, quæ immolant Gentes Dæmoniis immolant: Nolim autem vos consortes Dæmoniorum esse. Utraque verò Communio, tum Israëlitarum Deo sacrificantium cum Deo ejusque altari, tùm gentium Dæmoniis immolantium mensæque horum communicantium, cum Diabolo & hujus Mensa, non Corporalis exinde, sed Spiritualis, maximè interim realis erat & substantialis.

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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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