Annotatio III §.IV close: True image = Eucharistic bread as type; substance commanded vs human-effigy idolatry; stop before §.V
The true image of Christ they honor is what the High Priest Himself handed at the passion as type and efficacious remembrance: blessed, broken bread — ‘This is My body’.
As the assumed humanity is material substance (lest Divinity get an addition), so He commanded bread’s substance as the whole chosen image — lest a human effigy breed idolatry; Eucharist bread, Spirit-sanctified true image of natural flesh, He willed a divine body (
Stop before §.V (Nicaea II overturn).
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Et paucis intersertis: Exultent & lætentur & libertate linguæ fruantur, quicunque veram Christi imaginem sincerissimâ mente facientes desiderant & venerantur & ad salutem animæ corporisque adferunt, quam ipse Dominus noster Deus summus sacerdos, ex nobis integrè massam assumens, circa passionis tempus, in typum & recordationem efficacissimam, suis sacerdotibus & mystis tradidit: nam cum se sponte morti objiceret, gloriosa inquam illi & vivificanti, sumens panem benedixit, postquam gratias egisset & fregit tradensque discipulis dixit: accipite, manducate: Hoc est corpus meum. Ecce igitur vivificantis corporis illius imaginem quæ honorificè & gloriosè exhibita est. Quia quemadmodum id quòd è nobis assumsit, materia sola est substantia humana, juxta omnia non perfectè expressa, quæ per se existit persona, ne adjectio in Divinitate accidat; ita & imaginem totam electam, videlicet panis substantiam, mandavit apponi, ne scil. humanâ effigie figurata induceretur idololatria. Similiter etiam panem Eucharistæ veluti imaginem veram naturalis carnis per Sancti Spiritus aggressionem sanctificatam, divinum corpus esse voluit, illique sic placuit &c. &c. Lege ipsum Sagittarium p. m. 354. 355. & seq.