Annotatio IV §.III close: Words Spirit and life — mystical nutrition; stop before §.IV (Pauline commentary)
Second half of (4): understand the flesh-and-blood words mystically and spiritually — Spirit and life — not as bodily food of a body-part, but spiritual nutrition joining members to the Head, eternal life and last-day raising.
Spiritually taken sense quickens; carnal coarse hearing profits nothing — why fasten a thick carnal sense on spiritual speech?
Stop before §.IV (antecedent Institution commentary hands off to the Pauline / Apostolic successor).
Latin
Dehinc verò, dum verba, de carne sua & sanguine participandis, à se prolixius edisserta, non propriè & carnaliter, sed mysticè ac spiritualiter, tum intelligenda, tùm in effectum danda, pronunciat: Verba quæ loquor, Spiritus & vita sunt; Quasi dicat, Cur hâc mea loquendi ratione offendimini? Et vos ignoratis, spiritualiter esse intelligenda, non carnaliter, quæ de carnis meæ locutus sum manducatione? Non enim de corporis alimento, adeoque de carne, corporis mei parte, hôc loco sermo erat, sed de nutritione spirituali, eamque sequente conjunctione vestri, ceu membrorum, mecum capite, vers. 63. de Vita vestra per me, quæ temporalis non est, sed æterna vers. 57. ad quam vos suscitaturus sum ultimâ die: ita Spiritus, i. e. sensus spiritualiter sumtus verbaque rectè intellecta vivificant, Caro verò, verbaque carnaliter & crassè accepta, nil prosunt. Cum ergo verba mea Spiritus sint, deq; spiritualibus agam, cùm de vita non temporali sed æterna, nutritioneque mystica, quâ in unum coalescimus corpus, ego loquar, cur crassum & carnalem mihi affingitis sensum?