A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §514

Annotatio IV §.VI: Irenaeus — Eucharist of two things, terrestrial and celestial (observations 1–2)

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Irenaeus (Adv. Haer. 4.34) more fully: the Sacred Eucharist consists of two things — earthly and heavenly. Bread from earth receiving God’s invocation is no longer common bread but Eucharist.

(1) After consecration it is still bread, only severed from common use. (2) That separated bread is not itself Christ’s body as if transmuted — it is Eucharist: bread destined and consecrated for the sacrament.

Latin

IRENÆUS tandem uti prolixius ac crebrius, ita & plenius distinctiusve, rem veritatemque Eucharisticam persequitur. Primò quidem, Librô contra Hæreses quarto cap. 34. ex duabus rebus S. Eucharistiam constare disertissimè ratus: Panis, inquit, qui est à terra, percipiens invocationem Dei, jam non communis panis est, sed Eucharistia, duabus rebus constans, terrena & cælestis. Ubi observes velim, divum Martyrem (1) Panem post consecrationem factam, non amplius communem, sed ab omni communi usu sejunctum, interim tamen adhuc panem salutare. (2) Panem hunc ab omni communi usu separatum, non dicere ipsum corpus Christi, quasi in hoc transmutatum, sed verò Eucharistiam, i. e. panem, Eucharistiæ S. destinatum consecratumque.

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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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