Annotatio IV §.XVI open: Bernard of Clairvaux follows Berengar — food of mind; spiritual exhibition
§.XVI: near the opening of the XIIth age, BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX — then prince of ascetic writers — walks Berengar’s footsteps on the Sacred Supper.
Two sermons (Purification of Mary; S. Martin): Christ’s body in the Mystery is food of the mind, not the belly — not eaten corporally; the same flesh is exhibited spiritually, not corporally.
Latin
§. XVI. Berengarii, circa finem Seculi XI. piè demortui vestigia, docendo de S. Cœna, legit Asceticorum Scriptorum suo tempore facilè Princeps BERNHARDUS ABBAS CLARÆVALLENSIS sub ipsum ferè SECULI XIImi INITIUM, quo de testes sunt amplissimæ, binæ ejus Conciones indubitatò illi tribuendæ, altera de purificatione Mariæ, de S. Martino altera conscripta habitaque. In priori legeris, quòd Christi corpus in Mysterio (Cœnæ) cibus mentis sit, non ventris, proinde corporaliter non manducetur, sicut enim cibus est, ita & comedi intelligitur. In posteriori verò: Quod usque hodie eadem caro Christi, nobis, sed spiritualiter utique, non corporaliter exhibeatur.