A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §530

Annotatio IV §.IX: Chrysostom Hom. 45 — mysteries spiritually; intelligible gift of body and blood

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Chrysostom (Hom. 45 on John) strips carnality from the mysteries and from the Supper’s carnal presence and participation.

Mysteries are for interior eyes — spiritual. As baptism’s sensible water carries an intelligible regeneration-gift, so the intelligible gift of body and blood is received by faith’s spiritual intelligence, not by bodily action.

Latin

PRIOR uti à Mysteriis omnibus Carnalitatem, sic à S. Cœna, corporis Christi carnalem tùm præsentiam, tùm participationem, semoturus, Homil. 45. in Johannem ita commentatur: Mysteria, inquit, non sunt carnaliter, sed interioribus oculis, i. e. spiritualiter, consideranda & contemplanda; Hujusmodi enim est Mysteriorum natura. Et paucis interjectis, sic pergit: Sicut in Baptismo, sensibili aqua elemento, intelligibile Regenerationis donum; ita etiam INTELLIGIBILE hoc corporis & sanguinis Christi donum, non corporea aut sensibili aliquâ actione, sed spirituali fidei intelligentiâ, animo atque mente percipitur.

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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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