A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §520

Annotatio IV §.VII: Origen — impropriety and real presence; presence and participation merely spiritual

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Next, Origen (same century): with Tertullian he stabilizes the impropriety of ‘This is my body’ and real presence — then urges that presence and participation are merely Spiritual.

Against Marcionites: if Christ had no flesh and blood, of what flesh and blood did He minister bread and cup as signs and IMAGES?

Latin

Rectius Seculi ejusdem Doctor proximus, utut non minus, ob allegoricas Scripturarum Interpretationes justo crebriores, erroribus aliquot exstantioribus scatentes, quàm ob multarum Veritatum sacrarum expositionem verè sublimem, famâ inter Theologos celebratus, ORIGENES puta, non improprietatem tantùm verborum Christi: Hoc est corpus meum, unà cum præsentia corporis Christi reali, in S. Cœna, ad exemplum Tertulliani, stabilivit, sed verò prætereà hanc corporis Christi præsentiam, quin & participationem, merè Spiritualem urget esse; de priori, ita adversus Marcionitas arguens: Quod si Christus (ut obloquuntur Marcionitæ) carne destitutus erat & exsanguis, cujusmodi Carnis, cujus corporis, qualis tandem sanguinis signa & IMAGINES PANEM ET POCULUM MINISTRAVIT. Dialog. 3. de Homine Christo.

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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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