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