A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §502

Annotatio IV §.IV: Second argument — cup and broken bread communion (1 Cor. 10:16–17) is spiritual

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Second argument (1 Cor. 10:16–17): communion of the cup of blessing with Christ’s blood and of the broken bread with His body is like coalescing into one body as partakers of the one spiritual bread — Christ Himself.

That union into one body is not corporal but Spiritual.

Latin

Alterum Argumentum ex decimo Capite prioris Epistolæ ad Corinthios, desumtum, ab ea Communione poculi benedictionis cum sanguine Christi, & ea communione panis fracti cum corpore Christi petitum est, quæ similis existit communioni & in unum corpus coalitiioni eorum, qui ejusdem panis Dominici, vel etiam tou henos artou cum articulo, i. e. ejusdem panis spiritualis, seu Christi Domini ipsius participes fiunt? Ita enim Christus vers. 16. & 17. Poculum benedictionis, cui benedicimus, nonne communicatio sanguinis Christi est? panis quem frangimus, nonne communicatio corporis Christi est? Nam unus est panis, unum corpus multi sumus: nam omnes ex eodem pane participamus. At horum Unio in idem corpus communioque, non est corporalis, sed Spiritualis.

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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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