Annotatio IV §.VIII: Athanasius — spiritual presence and participation; exclude the corporal
Athanasius (on John 6) builds spiritual presence and participation of body and blood in the Supper — corporal presence and participation shut out.
The Lord separated Spirit from flesh so we know His speech is spiritual not carnal; He named the ascension to pull them off corporal intellect toward heavenly spiritual food (pneumatikēn trophēn).
Latin
Utpote adstruendis Spiritualibus præsentiâ ac participatione corporis & sanguinis Christi in S. Cœna, exclusis præsentia & participatione corporalibus, Commentario ad sextum Joh. caput, totus occupatus: Dominus, inquit, Spiritum à carne discriminavit, ut discerneremus ea, quæ loqueretur, non carnalia esse, sed spiritualia: Quod enim hominibus corpus ejus suffecisset ad cibum, ut universi mundi alimonia fieret? Sed proptereà adscensionis suæ in cælum mentionem fecit, ut eos à corporali intellectu abstraheret ac deinde carnem suam, de qua locutus erat, cibum è supernis cælestem & spiritualem alimoniam (pneumatikēn trophēn) ab ipso donandam intelligerent.