Annotatio IV §.VII open: Third century — Tertullian first professor of Eucharistic truth
§.VII opens the THIRD century with Tertullian as first professor of Eucharistic truth — in flower at the age’s start.
In one sentence he both confesses the impropriety of Christ’s words ‘This is my body’ and attests the true presence of Christ’s true body in the supper.
Latin
§. VII. SECULI TERTII Professor Veritatis Eucharisticæ primus TERTULLIANUS meritô suô inducitur, quippe ipso Seculi initio in flore constitutus, unâque ac eâdem sententiâ tàm Verborum Eucharisticorum Christi: Hoc est corpus meum, improprietatem disertissimè confessus, quam veram nihilominus veri corporis Christi in cœna præsentiam testatus.