Annotatio IV §.III (3): Mode compatible with ascension — Athanasius draws from corporal intellect
(3) The recommended presence must also stand with Christ’s bodily ascent into heaven (John 6:62) — so from the ascent one gathers spiritual presence on earth, not corporal.
Athanasius: He named the ascension to pull them off corporal intellect and teach His flesh as heavenly spiritual food.
Latin
(3) Quia ista solummodò præsentia cum participatione corporis & sanguinis Christi commendatur, quæ etiam cum adscensu corporis Christi in cælum, probè consistere, quin ex adscensu corporis Christi in Cœlum, contra discipulos, manducationi carnis ejus & sanguinis, dum coram adhuc adesset, in terris intercedentes ac obluctati, evinci hisce Christi verbis poterat: Quid si igitur spectaveritis Filium Hominis adscendentem eo, ubi erat priùs? vers. 62. At non Corporalis in terris præsentia ex adscensu corporis Christi in Cœlum, sed Spiritualis tantùm, colligi demonstrarique in promptu erat. Proptereà adscensionis suæ meminit, inquit Athanasius: hina somatikēs ennoias autous aphelkysēi — eos, à corporali intellectu abstraheret & ut deinceps carnem suam cœlestem & spiritualem cibum esse discerent, Tom. I. tract. in illud: Qui dixerit verbum contra Spir. S.