Annotatio IV §.VII close: Cyprian — invade the Lord’s body only spiritually; stop before §.VIII
Cyprian, later in the century, most expressly teaches true spiritual presence and participation — in rhetorical style (On the Lapsed) against the unprepared who still reek of idol foods yet invade the Lord’s Body.
They can invade Christ’s body and do violence to His blood only in a Spiritual mode — by taking bread and wine, which the impious handle only by sacrilege.
Stop before §.VIII (fourth century: Nicene Fathers).
Latin
Tertius denique & jam altius seculum hoc ingressus, divus CYPRIANUS, veram illam ac spiritualem corporis Christi in Eucharistia præsentiam atque participationem, disertissimè omnium, rhetoricô interim stylô (hôc potissimum tempore à Patribus excoli cœptô, facilè autem in abusum trahendo, in sermone de Lapsis populari, Rhetoricæ per se suamque naturam, indulgere solito) inter alia hunc in modum edisserit, dum nempe in eos invehitur, qui ab negatâ semel fide christiana, paulò post leniori pænitentiâ tacti, sicque minus præparati, ad S. cœnam accedunt: Mortiferos, ait, idolorum cibos adhuc penè ructantes, exhalantibus etiamnum scelus suum faucibus & contagia funesta redolentibus, Domini Corpus invadunt. Et iterum. Spretis his omnibus atque contemtis, vis infertur Corpori Christi & sanguini ejus; plus modò in Dominum manibus atque ore delinquunt, quàm cùm Dominum negaverunt. Hinc namque corpus Christi invadere, & huic, nec non Sanguini ejus, vim inferre aliter, quàm Spirituali modô, haud poterant, sumentes nempe Panem & Vinum, seu Sacramentum Domini, ab impiis non nisi per Sacrilegium, usurpandum & attrectandum.