A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §542

Annotatio IV §.XI: Isidore de Offic. — bread/wine called body/blood; into sacrament not substance

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So Strimesius summons one alone: ISIDORE of Seville (de Offic. Eccles. 1.8).

Bread is called Christ’s body because it confirms ours; wine referred to His blood because it works blood in the flesh — visible things that, sanctified, pass INTO THE SACRAMENT OF THE DIVINE BODY (not into the substance of body and blood).

Latin

Ut proinde nemini mirum videri debeat, si unum solum ISIDORUM, Episcopum Hispalensem, Veritatis hoc loco à nobis statuminandæ Possessorem advocemus, Lib. 1. de Offic. Eccles. c. 8. ita scribentem: Panis quia confirmat corpus nostrum, ideò corpus Christi nuncupatur, vinum autem quia sanguinem operatur in carne, ideo ad sanguinem Christi refertur. Hæc autem duo sunt visibilia; sanctificata tamen per Spiritum S. IN SACRAMENTUM DIVINI CORPORIS (non in substantiam corporis & sanguinis Christi) transeunt: Panis enim quem frangimus corpus Christi est, qui dicit, Ego sum Panis Vivus; Vinum autem, sanguis ejus est, & hoc est quod scriptum est, Ego sum vitis vera.

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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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