Annotatio III §.IV: Melanchthon to the Elector — silence quarrelers; keep one Forma of Paul’s κοινωνία words; declare the Supper’s fruit; the Son is present for man, not for bread
Some of Melanchthon’s words to the Elector are worth keeping: he approves the Elector’s counsel that both sides’ quarrelers be silenced, lest the tender church split and the weak nearby be troubled — and he wishes such quarrelers gone from either party.
Second, once the contentious are removed, the rest should agree on one Forma of words; best here is to keep Paul’s: the bread we break is the κοινωνία of the body — and to speak richly of the Supper’s fruit so people love this pledge and use it often, declaring what κοινωνία means.
Melanchthon inserts: the Son of God is present in the ministry of the Gospel and efficacious in believers — present not for the bread but for the man ("Abide in me…"; "I am in my Father, and you in me…"). By these consolations he makes us his members and promises to vivify our bodies.
Latin
Verba quaedam memorari juvat: Probo (scribit Melanchthon ad Electorem) Consilium Illustrissimi Electoris, quod rixantibus utrinque mandavit silentium, ne distractio fiat in tenera Ecclesia & infirmi turbentur in illo loco & vicinia, & optarem rixatores in utraque parte abesse. Secundò, remotis contentiosis, prodest reliquos de una Forma verborum convenire & in hac controversia optimum est retinere verba Pauli: Panis quem frangimus κοινωνία ἐστὶ τοῦ σώματος, & copiosè de fructu caenae dicendum est, ut incitentur Homines ad amorem hujus pignoris & crebrum usum; & vocabulum κοινωνία declarandum est. Paucisque interfertis: Adest, inquit Melanchthon, Filius Dei in Ministerio Evangelii & ibi certè efficax est in credentibus, ac adest, non propter Panem, sed propter Hominem, sicut inquit: Manete in me, & ego in vobis. Item: Ego sum in Patre meo, & vos in me & Ego in vobis. Et his veris Consolationibus facit nos sibi membra & testatur se corpora nostra vivificaturum esse.