Annotatio III §.X (4) close: Thyestean charges hit Gnostics only; ancients lack Adoration/Elevations/Circumgestations; stop before (5)
Thyestean banquet charges stuck to Gnostics alone (maliciously counted as Christians); true Christians never even mentioned the Eucharist there, much less explained or defended this mystery — mere calumny, exploded.
And the ancients’ constant lack of later Transsubstantiation-rites (Adoration, Elevation, Circumgestation) amply shows they utterly ignored Transsubstantiation.
Stop before (5) Natura Sacramentorum.
Latin
Thyesteas Coenas, quarum quandoque Christiani arguebantur, ad Gnosticos solos (non nisi per apertissimam malitiam Christianis annumeratos) pertinuisse, à veris autem Christianis, citra omnem Eucharistiæ S. mentionem injectam, nedum Mysterii hujus expositionem defensionemque susceptam vel minimam, pro mera calumnia habitas explosasque fuisse, notius est, quàm ut hoc loco prolixius dici debeat. Quin Praxios Rituumque, Transsubstantiationi indissolubiliter annexorum (quales sunt Sacramenti Adoratio, Elevatio, Circumgestatio) recentioribus seculis adinventæ, apud veteres Christianos constans atque perpetuus defectus, de Transsubstantiatione ab his penitus ignorata prolixè satis testari censendus est.