A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §378 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio II §.IV: Primary anti-absorption intent twisted into ante-usum hypostatic-style union

Those texts first meant to block belief that after spiritual bread–body union the bread is abolished or absorbed.

Consubstantiation-seekers bend them instead: after consecration, even before use, they imagine union like the divine person joining Christ’s human nature in Mary’s womb into one hypostatic union.

Latin

Quæ loca omnia, in id Primariò intenta, ne crederetur, post spiritualem corporis Christi, cum pane, in Eucharistia, ritè debitèque celebrata, Unionem, panis abolitionem quandam seu absorbitionem contingere, istuc flectere sustinuerunt quotquot ad Consubstantiationem sibi aditum pararunt, ut post consecrationem panis, cum hoc ipso, etiam ante usum ejus, Corpus Christi non alio modo uniri sibi imaginarentur, quàm, post benedictam inter mulieres ab Angelo salutatam matrem Christi, in hujus utero, conceptæ humanæ Christi naturæ divina persona, substantiali sese modo, sociavit cumque ista in unum idemque ὑφιστάμενον unita est.

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