Annotatio IV §.VI: Irenaeus — Eucharist of two things, terrestrial and celestial (observations 1–2)
Irenaeus (Adv. Haer. 4.34) more fully: the Sacred Eucharist consists of two things — earthly and heavenly. Bread from earth receiving God’s invocation is no longer common bread but Eucharist.
(1) After consecration it is still bread, only severed from common use. (2) That separated bread is not itself Christ’s body as if transmuted — it is Eucharist: bread destined and consecrated for the sacrament.
Latin
IRENÆUS tandem uti prolixius ac crebrius, ita & plenius distinctiusve, rem veritatemque Eucharisticam persequitur. Primò quidem, Librô contra Hæreses quarto cap. 34. ex duabus rebus S. Eucharistiam constare disertissimè ratus: Panis, inquit, qui est à terra, percipiens invocationem Dei, jam non communis panis est, sed Eucharistia, duabus rebus constans, terrena & cælestis. Ubi observes velim, divum Martyrem (1) Panem post consecrationem factam, non amplius communem, sed ab omni communi usu sejunctum, interim tamen adhuc panem salutare. (2) Panem hunc ab omni communi usu separatum, non dicere ipsum corpus Christi, quasi in hoc transmutatum, sed verò Eucharistiam, i. e. panem, Eucharistiæ S. destinatum consecratumque.