A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §733

Annotatio VI §.VII: Indigni eat panem Domini (bread of Lord), not panem Dominum (Lord-bread)

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For their sake he names only the lesser object — this bread — “whoever eats this bread unworthily is guilty of the body”; examine yourself, then eat and drink.

So the true head is Indigni eating the bread of the Lord, not the bread that is the Lord — clearer than the Author’s Oral-body-of-Indigni head.

Latin

Eóque manducationis, in legitimo S. Cœnæ usu, Objectum dimidiatum duntaxat minusque principale, scilicet panem solum, indignorum causâ, inducit, ita scribens: Quoties de pane hoc ederitis & de poculo hoc biberitis, mortem Domini annuntiabitis, donec redeat. Quicunque igitur indignè de PANE HOC manducat, is reus sit Corporis Christi: Indeque exploret Seipsum homo, & ita edat de pane hoc, & bibat de poculo hoc. Nimirum, hoc Doctrinæ caput de Indignorum Manducatione panis istius, qui Domini est, non autem panis illius, qui Dominus ipse est, rectius ac evidentius multo, quam (quod Auctor vult) caput doctrinæ, de Indignorum Manducatione corporis Christi Orali.

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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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