A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §164

§.XIV (2): With Melanchthon hard then soft — Coena words property vs sacramental τὸ ῥητόν / Nazianzen ἀντίτυπα

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(2.) Those who cling with the badly informed Philip Melanchthon — harsh on Bucer's and the Swiss view in the 1522 letter to Oecolampadius and in the 1530 Epilogue of Sentences from the Fathers — so tightly to the bare property of the Supper words that they deny any tropical speech in them, even though they themselves cannot avoid figurative speech on other grounds.

And they will not follow the same Philip after better information and second thoughts (δευτέρας φροντίδας): in the 1535 letter to Urbanus Rhegius, in letters to Veit Dietrich (especially 1543), elsewhere, and in the 1559 letter to Johannes Crato the year before Melanchthon's death — where he holds that the letter (τὸ ῥητόν) of the Supper words is to be taken sacramentally, admits that the ancients spoke far otherwise than recent ages, and even recalls that Nazianzen simply called them ἀντίτυπα of Christ's body.

See Pezel, Arguments & Theological Responses VIII, pp. 175–190, and Melanchthon's letter to Crato in Letters & Judgments II, pp. 384–385 (Pezel).

Latin

(2.) Qui cum PHILIPPO MELANCHTONE malè informato, & in Epistola ad Oecolampadium, Anno 1522. exarata, itemque in Epilogo Sententiarum collectarum ex Patribus, Anno 1530. de Sententia Buceri & Helvetiorum duriter pronunciante, proprietati verborum Coenae nimiùm inhaerent, ut nullam tropicam dictionem iis subesse autument, à se ipsis tamen nullâ ratione evitandam; Nec cum eodem Philippo melius informato & δευτέρας φροντίδας passo, in Epistola ad Urbanum Regium Aô. 1535. inque Epistolis ad Vitum Theodorum, maximè ea, quam Anno 1543. scripsit, & alibi passim necnon in Epistola ad Johannem Cratonem, anno mortem ejus praecedente 1559. τὸ ῥητὸν verborum Coenae Sacramentaliter accipiendum contendunt, & vetustatem longè hac de re aliter locutam fatentur, quàm recentiorem aetatem, quin Nazianzenum simpliciter ἀντίτυπα σώματος Χριστοῦ nominasse meminerunt, vid. Pezelium Argument. & Respons. Theolog. Parte VIII, a pag. 175. ad 190. & Epistolam Melanchtonis ad Cratonem scriptam in Epistolis & Judiciis Melanchtonis parte 2. p. 384. & 385. a Pezelio editis.

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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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