Annotatio IV §.XV: Writings destroyed — figure/type/sign language under pressure; yet adhered to truth
His exact modes of speaking on the Sacred Supper are hard to pin down: enemies thoroughly suppressed and deleted his writings.
Under Transubstantiators’ pressure he more often stressed Figure, Type, and Sign than Antitype and Christ’s most-present Body — yet as to the thing and substance he firmly held the truth, even if adversaries’ cruelty sometimes made him look merely human.
Latin
Equidem, quinam præcisè hujus præstantissimi Confessoris de Sacra Cœna loquendi modi fuerint, non adeò in proclivi est decernere, quod Scripta hujus Viri, ab inimicorum suorum numerosa turba, penitus oppressa deletaque sunt; Quid quòd, concedi potest, hunc ipsum Berengarium, Transsubstantiatorum, unô alioque jam tum seculo cristas erigentium, importunitate, eò zeli adactum fuisse, ut de S. Cœna commentatus, Figuræ crebrius Typique & Signi, quam Antitypi Corporisque Christi, in eadem, omnibus Fidelibus communicantibus præsentissimi, mentionem injecerit; interim fatendum insimul est, veritati, quà rem & substantiam, firmiter adhæsisse eum, etiamsi per inhumanitatem adversariorum suorum, aliquando passus aliquid humani videatur.