Annotatio IV §.VI: Justin Martyr — Eucharistic bread remains after consecration; Cosinus epiphonema
Justin (Apol. 2): after consecration the Eucharistic bread remains the same and feeds our flesh — no longer common, yet the food ‘changed’ that nourishes our flesh and blood we have learned is the flesh and blood of the incarnate Jesus.
Cosinus of Durham: therefore bread-substance remains after consecration as truly corruptible food — Christ’s immortal body does not nourish or change into our flesh; this food is sacramentally called Christ’s Flesh, which nourishes unto eternal life.
Latin
JUSTINUS MARTYR panem Eucharisticum, etiam post consecrationem, eundem permanere, inque alimoniam carnis nostræ (etsi vulgaris amplius non sit, utpote fidelibus communionem corporis Christi tributurus) edocere annisus, in Apol. 2. ad Antoninum Imperatorem prope finem, ita disserit: Postquam Præses gratias egit & acclamavit populus, illi qui à nobis dicuntur Diaconi, seu Ministri, dant cuique præsentium, quod sumant de pane & vino: Et hoc alimentum à nobis vocatur Eucharistia; Non enim ut vulgarem panem, neque ut vulgare poculum hæc sumimus: Sed quemadmodum per verbum Dei, Caro factus Jesus Christus Servator noster, carnem & sanguinem pro salute nostra habuit, sic etiam per verbum precationis & gratiarum actionis, sacratam ab ipso alimoniam, QUÆ MUTATA NUTRIT NOSTRAS CARNES ET SANGUINEM, illius incarnati Jesu carnem & sanguinem esse didicimus. Ad hoc respiciens Cosinus Episcopus Dunelmensis, adductis à se quoque Justini verbis sequens epiphonema annexit: Quare, inquit, & substantia panis etiam post Consecrationem manet & verè corruptibilis cibus est, quod de Christi corpore immortali dici non potest: Neque enim caro Christi carnem nostram alit, nec in eam mutatur, sed cibus iste, qui sacramentaliter Caro Christi dicitur. Caro autem Christi nutrit ad vitam æternam. cit. loc. p. 58.