Annotatio III §.X (4): Faith of the first centuries — if they taught Transsubstantiation, Jews and Gentiles would have hissed at once
(4) Faith and praxis of the first centuries: if the earliest Christians had professed Transsubstantiation, none then mistook ‘This is my body / blood.’
That dogma’s rumor would have flown at once to neighboring Jews and Gentiles and met not only contradiction but every hiss — from such fervent mystery-defenders it could not have stayed quiet.
Latin
(4.) Tàm Fidei, quam huic superstructæ praxi, primorum, per multa secula Christianorum: Quodsi enim primævi Christiani Transsubstantiationem professi fuissent, nemine eorum tùm temporis, veri sensus Christi verborum: Hoc est corpus meum, hic est sanguis meus, ignaro existente, quî fieri unquam potuisset, quò minùs ab his, præfervidis alioquin Mysteriarum Religionis suæ propugnatoribus, fama dogmatis, ad eos, quos inter vivebant, Judæos pariter atque Ethnicos, quam velocissimè transiisset citra omnem moram, non contradictiones horum ferias duntaxat, sed & exsibilationes quascunque expertura?