A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §543 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio IV §.XI: Isidore Etymolog. — participation of faith; words expunged, Bertram preserved

Clearer still (Etymolog. 6.12): visible bread and wine nourish the outer man; Christ’s word, the living bread, recreates faithful souls THROUGH THE PARTICIPATION OF FAITH.

Those words are struck from today’s printed Isidore — preserved by Bertram the Presbyter (John of Durham notes).

Latin

Et adhuc clariùs Lib. 6. Etymolog. cap. 12. Sicuti enim substantia panis & vini visibilis, nutrit hominem exteriorem, ita verbum Christi, qui est panis vivus, PER PARTICIPATIONEM FIDEI, recreat animas fidelium. Quæ verba è Libris Isidori hodie impressis expuncta, à Bertramo Presbytero conservata nobis, Joh. Dunelmensis, Tract. crebrius cit. p. m. 84. observat.

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